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Everything Made By an AI Is In the Public Domain
(doctorow.medium.com)
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this post was submitted on 21 Aug 2023
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This is going to get dicey.
If I ask ChatGPT for a chord progression, and it says "Use the ii V I resolution in C"
And I now play ||: Dm Dm G7 C :||
Then I sing some heartfelt lyrics and add a drum beat and a bass line...
Did an AI write the song?
Well what if I asked it for the lyrics?
Lyrics but not the chords?
What if an AI is doing my mastering in my DAW?
Ii-V-I is already not eligible for copyright. That's why a million contrafacts exist.
Lyrics, maybe. Lyrics are really the most copyrightable part of a song. Then melody after that.
Chord progressions are barely protectable, usually only in combination with a melody and lyrics.
Stop making so much sense. The AI "creators" are already really, really, really confused.
The title of this article is a lie. The case it talks about is only judging the case where someone used an AI they created to generate an image, without human input then tried to claim the AI as the author and himself as the copyright holder on the work for hire clause/being the owner of the AI.
The conclusion was basically that a work need some human creative input to be able to copyrightable. It does not answer the question of how much work is required when AI is involved (and explicitly calls this out).
So using AI as part of creating a work does not mean it is uncopyrightable. Only the case where you have put in no input into that work.
Then it's probably an improvement over today's mastering engineers.
@foggy There's another article that clarifies the decision. Works created by a human with AI assistance are copyrightable. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/ai-works-not-copyrightable-studios-1235570316/
Works created solely by AI, like if all the human did was enter a prompt into ChatGPT or Midjourney, are not copyrightable.