> Copyright protects only expression, not ideas, systems or methods Copyright is a law agreed by a humans in a social contract created to protect humans and fu

> Copyright protects only expression, not ideas, systems or methods Copyright is a law agreed by a humans in a social contract created to protect humans and further their interests in a 'fair' manner. There is no inalienable right to copyright, no universal law that requires it, it's not an emergent property of intelligence that mechanically applies to artificial entities. So while the current copyright laws could be interpreted in the way you suggest for the time being, they are clearly written without any notion of AI, and can and should be revised to incorporate the new state of the world; you can bet creators will push hard in that direction. It's pretty clear that the mechanical transformation of a human body of work for the sole purpose of stripping it of copyright is a violation of the spirit of copyright law *. *( as long as that machine can't also generate a similar work from scratch, in which case the point becomes moot. But we are far, far, from that point)