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"Last week, a US federal judge handed America’s creative workers a huge labor
win: Judge Beryl A Howell of the DC Circuit Court upheld a US Copyright Office
ruling that works created by “AIs” are not eligible for copyright protection.
This is huge.
Some background: under US law — and under a mountain of international treaties,
from the Berne Convention to the TRIPS —copyright is automatically granted to
creative works of human authorship “at the moment of fixation in some tangible
medium.”
That is: as soon as a human being
makes something
creative, and
records
it in some medium (a hard-drive, magnetic tape, paper, film, canvas, etc), that
creative thing is
immediately copyrighted (the duration of that copyright
varies, both by territory and by whether the creator was working on their own
or for a corporation)."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
