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Copyrights are assigned to inventors. How can you legally not create the patent under the inventors' names and then assign the patent to the company? Maybe my c
by ROTMetro 4y ago
Copyrights are assigned to inventors. How can you legally not create the patent under the inventors' names and then assign the patent to the company? Maybe my company's lawyers were just doing CYA, and granted I took much of the patent stuff on the lawyers word, but I don't think the process you describe is legal. The fact that my company owns the fruit of my labor has nothing to do with the legal requirements of an inventors name being on a patent. Your refusal to acknowledge that these laws require an inventor/artist is the core of my argument.
If you generate images in the manner you describe you are nothing more than a machinist plugging in coordinates and generating widgets, not an artist using tools. The generating program meets the 'anonymous artist' portion of the relevant Title code in that case, and you can not copyright it. The office might mistakenly give you copyright, but I don't think it would hold up to a challenge.
- shadowgovt 4y agoI wanted to thank you for this interaction because I've learned quite a bit about the boundary layer on copyright. I think I see what you're saying in this topic. It looks like the copyright office is perfectly willing to grant copyright on work that uses an AI generator for even a substantial portion of it (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/09/artist-receives-first-known-us-copyright-registration-for-generative-ai-art https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/09/artis...) but not the whole thing. I suspect there will be a series of cases in the not too distant future to make the boundary line clearer.