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Court Says No Human Author, No Copyright (but Human Authorship of GenAI Outputs Remains Uncertain) (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

district court granted summary judgment for the Copyright Office in Thaler v. 18, 2023), affirming the Copyright Office’s position that “a work generated entirely by an artificial system absent human involvement [is not] eligible for copyright.” The Copyright Act neither defines “authorship” nor “works of authorship.”

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The Other ‘Maybe’ Authors: Copyright Ownership for AI Trainers

IP Intelligence

Although the Copyright Office’s official guidance on whether you can be the author of AI output is a solid “maybe? Consistent with the Copyright Office’s guidance in the Compendium, Third Edition, there is often “creative input or intervention from a human author” at multiple steps in the process. This creates a major problem.

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Generative AI: the US class action against Google Bard (and other AI tools) for web scraping

Kluwer Copyright Blog

3:23-cv-03440 ) In a recent post we analysed a class action filed in the US against Open AI for unauthorized use of copyright works for training of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT ( here ) (“Generative AI” or “Gen AI”). District Court for the Northern District of California, No.

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The Other ‘Maybe’ Authors: Copyright Ownership for AI Trainers

LexBlog IP

Although the Copyright Office’s official guidance on whether you can be the author of AI output is a solid “maybe? .” Consistent with the Copyright Office’s guidance in the Compendium, Third Edition, there is often “creative input or intervention from a human author” at multiple steps in the process.

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Copyright Evidence: 21 for 2021 (a year in review)

Kluwer Copyright Blog

When we launched the Copyright Evidence Portal , our ambition was no less than to create a catalogue of all existing empirical studies about copyright. We invited experts to offer a synthesis of empirical evidence catalogued on the Evidence Portal in response to 21 topical copyright questions of importance for the 21 st century.