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Does this matter in practice though? By modifying some of the generated code and not taking a solution produced by an LLM end-to-end but borrowing heavily from
by jbergqvist 7mo ago
Does this matter in practice though? By modifying some of the generated code and not taking a solution produced by an LLM end-to-end but borrowing heavily from it, can't a human claim full ownership of the IP even though in reality the LLM did most of the relevant work?
- reverius42 7mo agoI think as long as the human puts in substantial and transformational effort, they can claim to be the copyright holder of the entire work, yes.
- eru 7mo agoCompare taking snapshots with a camera. Because some photographer somewhere can claim to have put in a lot of effort, we all get IP protection for photographs by default.
- reverius42 7mo agoNot if they weren't taken by a human. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_dispute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_disput...
- eru 7mo agoYes, I didn't include the monkey in my 'we'.
- shagie 7mo agoIn the US it isn't the sweat of the brow, but rather a minimal threshold of human creativity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweat_of_the_brow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweat_of_the_brow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_United_States#Criteria_for_copyright https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_United_St...
- reverius42 7mo agoOh, good point. It's not related at all to effort then. Either way it still has to be a human.
- JAlexoid 7mo agoSoftware is considered a complete piece of work. Therefore as long as you modify a single character - that whole product is under your copyright.