The 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" w

The 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.