Decisions · Policy · United States
Coding creativity: copyright and the artificially intelligent author
Annemarie Bridy (University of Idaho) · 2012 · Proposal · non-binding
Can AI-generated work be protected?
Closer to AI output protected
Autonomous AI works fit copyright more easily than assumed, since all creativity is algorithmic
What it says
Drawing on the critique of romantic authorship and on work about computer-aided creation, Bridy argues that all creativity is inherently algorithmic, so works produced autonomously by computers are less different from human works, and from copyright's existing structure, than they appear.
An early and influential case for accommodating AI output within copyright.
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