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[klaatu48]

One thing that doesn’t quite apply here but, I think, will be interesting is current rulings say that works that were created without human intervention cannot be copyrighted. So, for example, the fellow who published a book with a story written by AI and art produced through AI may not actually hold the rights to that book.

Nothing was decided regarding AI specifically yet, but there was a decision made by the US Copyright office regarding a selfie taken by a monkey.

“Expert opinion on whether Slater owns the copyright on the photographs is mixed. On 21 August 2014 the United States Copyright Office published an opinion, later included in the third edition of the office’s Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices, released on 22 December 2014, to clarify that “only works created by a human can be copyrighted under United States law, which excludes photographs and artwork created by animals or by machines without human intervention” and that “Because copyright law is limited to ‘original intellectual conceptions of the author’, the [copyright] office will refuse to register a claim if it determines that a human being did not create the work.”

I have a feeling the exact definition of without human intervention will get a lot of attention in the coming years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_dispute