At the very least it’s a mistake to say the law is “settled” at all. It’s barely been tested.
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rtxn@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The US specifically has settled on it being (effectively?) public domain.
The US Copyright Office has declared that it would not grant copyright protection to AI-generated material due to a lack of human authorship, but it is very far from being codified by law.
atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
povoq@slrpnk.net@slrpnk.net 1 day ago Indeed, this ruling says nothing about something being a derivative work, all it says is that AI generated works can not create new copyright claims, which is totally sensible and non-controversial.
JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org 1 day ago
The bigger problem is that AI tools have ingested a lot of copyrighted and FOSS code and totally will use that code in your projects. So even if AI output can’t be copyrighted, you are still on the hook if your AI copies copyrighted code into your own project. People will notice if your project just changed the variable names
- povoq@slrpnk.net@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
Yes, that is what the term “derivative work” referrs to.
eleijeep@piefed.social 1 day ago
This is still a problem for OSS licensing, since in order to license a work you need to be the copyright holder.
This might mean that OSS projects find it even more difficult to assert their licenses against violators in court, since they would need to prove that the part of the code that was copied was not AI output.
Banning the output of AI tools in OSS codebases is a sensible move for any project that actually cares about enforcing the license that their code is released under.