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> 503.03(a) Works-not originated by a human author. > In order to be entitled to copyright registration, a work must be the product of human authorship. Works
by FigBug 9y ago
> 503.03(a) Works-not originated by a human author.
> In order to be entitled to copyright registration, a work must be the product of human authorship. Works produced by mechanical processes or random selection without any contribution by a human author are not registrable.
Possibly nobody, but it depends how much input the program requires to generate the output. Just press a button and a song comes out -- can't be copyrighted. User has to enter a lot of parameters to generate output, user gets get copyright.
- WalterGR 9y agoJust press a button and a song comes out -- can't be copyrighted. I wonder: what would it take for a machine-generated work to be considered a work derived from a human-generated work? While the machine-generated work still wouldn't be copyrightable[0], would that prevent others from using the machine-generated work without an appropriate license? (IANAL.) [0] «To be copyrightable, a derivative work must incorporate some or all of a preexisting “work” and add new original copyrightable authorship to that work.» https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ14.pdf https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ14.pdf [PDF]
- somenewacc 9y ago> without any contribution by a human author are not registrable. Is there really no contribution of a human author -- the programmer? He wrote the source code, and supposedly imposed artistic qualities in the music that are themselves copyrightable. I agree that the user can't receive copyright since she didn't have any creative input.