Friday, February 7, 2020

Copyright Pros Don’t Know What to Do About Authorless AI Paintings; Broadband Breakfast, February 5, 2020

, Broadband Breakfast; Copyright Pros Don’t Know What to Do About Authorless AI Paintings

"Intellectual property experts on Wednesday puzzled over questions of originality and attribution at a conference hosted at the Library of Congress on “Copyright in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.”...

Rob Kasunic, associate register of copyrights at the U.S. Copyright Office of the Library of Congress, tried to provide answers to the questions of authorship brought up by [Ahmed] Elgammal [a computer scientist from Rutgers University].

In doing so, he raised more questions: Does Congress have the constitutional authority to give copyright incentives for AI computer programs? Should congress do that? Is copyright law even the correct vehicle for AI output protection?

Precedent provides limited guidance to these questions, he said."

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