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

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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. Those stakeholders “superintended the arrangements” to create the output, and were the “effective cause” of the output. Aalmuhammed , at 1234.

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

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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. The Copyright Office’s current position is a classic “hard cases make bad law” situation. ” U.S.