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why wouldn't they be copyrightable? is it a discovered versus written thing?
by SuoDuanDao 3y ago
why wouldn't they be copyrightable? is it a discovered versus written thing?
- dragonwriter 3y ago> why wouldn’t they be copyrightable? Why would they be? I mean, what is the specific argument that they fall within the scope of the definition of what is copyrightable under US law?
- SuoDuanDao 3y agonot a lawyer, but here's my naive interpretation based on living in a society that uses it. 'copyright' seems to refer to a specific string of symbols. literary or musical styles can't be copyrighted, but individual sequences of letters or notes can. Basically, if a derivative work copypasted without adding anything, it's considered plagiarism and/or violation of copyright. Weights in a model would similarly be a long string of symbols that someone went to considerable trouble to collate and therefore fall under copyright.
- tdullien 3y agoThe fact that software falls under copyright was a conscious decision in 1978 because they couldn't find a better place to put it under; so "writing software" was equated to writing books or poetry. The point here is that copyright requires a human to have created something using their own labor/creativity. The result of an algorithm run by a machine isn't a creative work under these definitions.