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It's more that the owner needs to be a person, and software isn't one. But a corporation can register a copyright, because corporations are legal people, even t
by roywiggins 5y ago
It's more that the owner needs to be a person, and software isn't one. But a corporation can register a copyright, because corporations are legal people, even though a human or humans created the work.
- kube-system 5y agoIt is not simply "you need to pick someone or some company". If the work was legitimately not created by a human, it is ineligible for copyright. This is an important distinction. For example, you can't register a copyright for a naturally weathered rock in nature, and just say that it's a sculpture and I want to assign copyright to someone or some company. Now, if you put the rock there, to let it be weathered, then you can copyright it. The distinction is that a human was involved in the creation, not that you "picked" a human.