Just logging back on to mark the end of a particular legal arc. Over the course of this blog I tracked how Copyright law was addressing the rapidly changing capabilities of generative AI models. You can see those posts at The Robot Authors and Return of the Robot Authors. To summarize, the Copyright Office decided … Continue reading Demise of the Robot Authors
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Jurisfiction
If current U.S. law doesn't cover machine-generated works, what options are there for changing the law?
Return of the Robot Authors
An update on who owns the copyright when a machine makes the art. Spoiler: Nobody!
The Robot Authors
Can an AI system be named the "author" of a creative work? What if the AI asks very nicely?
The Robot Inventors
I want to tell you about the guy who wants artificial intelligences to be recognized as inventors.
Patenting the odd, the impossible, and the unnerving 