The answer to (1) is plainly yes. Copyright is a human process. Things you think shouldn’t be copyrighted get copyright and vice versa. Lawyers will consider h

The answer to (1) is plainly yes. Copyright is a human process. Things you think shouldn’t be copyrighted get copyright and vice versa. Lawyers will consider how experts make decisions that affects and shapes the (sometimes far-) downstream representation of a valuable thing: thus an mp3 recording, a compiled executable, and, yes, a neural network’s model weights are all going to be in scope of copyright discussions. As for “should”…I don’t know. I feel like the model I train to synthesise my own voice should be copyrightable. Meanwhile I’m wary of titanic foundation models destroying entire markets in part because of a copyright moat.