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> If you sell the generator and don't make an explicit claim over produced works, they are the copyright of the person who clicked the button. I'm not sure thi
by gabemart 11y ago
> If you sell the generator and don't make an explicit claim over produced works, they are the copyright of the person who clicked the button.
I'm not sure this would meet the "threshold of originality" standard [1]. The simple act of pushing a button can meet the requirement for "at least some minimal degree of creativity" (as in your example of taking a photo), but I don't think it would do so when there is no relationship between the manner or timing of the button push and the output of the tool.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_of_originality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_of_originality
- pavlov 11y agoMost generators have a random component which is seeded from a timestamp. In that way, the user provides the creative input to the generator. If the generator doesn't randomize anything but just produces a preset sequence of outputs, that's different -- my feeling is that such a program's complete output is a single work by the program's author, since it's not affected by any external input.