AI as Producer and Consumer of Copyright Works

Protection of AI output

Can AI-generated work be protected?

Closer to AI output protected

Not copyright, but a thin, short sui generis right (e.g. 3 years) for AI-generated works

What it says

Machines should not be authors or owners, and awarding copyright to humans via section 9(3) CDPA becomes less justifiable the more remote their intervention. Rather than overstretch copyright, the authors propose a sui generis right with a thin scope, a strict fair use or fair dealing backstop, and a very short term, around three years.

A middle path: some protection for AI output, far weaker and shorter than copyright.

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