Here’s something interesting…
AI-Created Comic Has Been Deemed Ineligible for Copyright Protection
If AI created art is ineligible for copyright protection, that’ll set up a roadblock to the forthcoming artpoclypse. It isn’t complete protection, of course… I’m sure there’s some spectrum between “eligible” and “ineligible.” How much manual tinkering a bit of AI-art needs is yet to be determined.
Also… it appears that the US Copyright Office believes that copyright protection is available only for art created by humans. Right now that’s fair… but in the future, probably not. AI might change from an unthinking tool to actual entities, with civil rights and all that. Someone twenty years from now might get bored and genetically tinker with Bonobos or Bottlenose and uplift them to full human sentience; at which point granting *their* personhood would mean that any art they create should merit their copyright.
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Alternately I can have an AI do it and claim it for my own.
I kind of hope I live long enough to see non-human intelligence become a thing, because the legality will be amazing.
If my trailcam takes a photo, do I have the copyright?
I believe that question is kinda up in the air. *You* didn’t trigger the shutter, so *you* would not seem to have the copyright. Nobody world. The case with the monkey that triggered the camera is relevant.
https://www.technologylawsource.com/2015/04/articles/intellectual-property-1/who-owns-the-photo/
At least this is consistent.