U.S. Copyright Office issues statement on works containing AI-generated material

Re:U.S. Copyright Office issues statement on works containin... by brookst on Thursday March 16, 2023 @10:41PM (#35192245)

Aren’t dry, non-fiction books copyrightable? I don’t think “creative” necessarily means “artistic”, just making something where there was nothing. It’s hard for me to see a software program as a whole as uncreative in the same way logarithm tables are.

I agree it’s a complex are with no easy answer. But I really think that software, like words and notes and numbers, scales from the generic and unprotectable to the highly creative and protectable. I guess I’m saying we shouldn’t invalidate copyright based on the medium being software, any more than we would for the medium being audio.

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Re:U.S. Copyright Office issues statement on works containin... by randombits0 on Thursday March 16, 2023 @10:53PM (#35192361)

The expression can be as dry as a desert. Is the result an act of creativity? The bar is pretty low.

Say you had a book that listed the price of eggs over 100 years. You introduced each chapter, perhaps describing the egg market at the time, etc.

The book is copyrightable though lists of egg prices aren’t. Maps are another fun case for copyright.

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