Stephen Downes

I have no idea whether the U.S. government will support the findings of this report beyond next Tuesday, but the conclusions are reasonable on the face of it. The findings:

• no need for legislative change;
• use of AI tools to assist does not affect copyright protection;
• copyright protects the original expression even if the work also includes AI-generated material;
• copyright does not extend to purely AI-generated material where there is insufficient human control;
• this must be analyzed on a case-by-case basis;
• prompts do not alone provide sufficient control;
• authors still entitled to copyright even aftre their content appears in AI-generated outputs;
• no for additional copyright or sui generis protection for AI generated content.

Full report: 52 page PDF.