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Not sure why this should be true; the US Supreme Court recently chose to let precedent stand that AI creations are not copyrightable. https://www.reuters.com/le
by reverius42 8mo ago
Not sure why this should be true; the US Supreme Court recently chose to let precedent stand that AI creations are not copyrightable. https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-supreme-court-declines-hear-dispute-over-copyrights-ai-generated-material-2026-03-02/ https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-supreme-court-de...
That also seems relevant for this whole discussion, actually -- if a work can't be copyrighted it certainly can't have a changed license, or any license at all. (I guess it's effectively public domain to the extent that it's public at all?)
- nradov 8mo agoYou're really missing the point in multiple ways. First, precedents on copyright law are irrelevant to patent law. Second, AI generated works generally can be copyrighted under the human creator's name.
- reverius42 8mo agoNo, I think you are quite incorrect, at least on the latter point: "Lower courts upheld a U.S. Copyright Office decision that the AI-crafted visual art at issue in the case was ineligible for copyright protection because it did not have a human creator." Not eligible for copyright protection does not mean it can be copyrighted "under the human creator's name". It means there is no creative work at all. No copyright.
- reverius42 8mo agoAnd while courts in theory aren't supposed to apply copyright precedent to patent cases, in practice, they apparently do a lot of the time, so it's kind of a mess! https://scholarship.kentlaw.iit.edu/ckjip/vol16/iss1/4/#:~:text=Abstract,or%20inconsistent%20with%20other%20doctrine. https://scholarship.kentlaw.iit.edu/ckjip/vol16/iss1/4/#:~:t...
- nradov 8mo agoNo, you're still missing the point. Did you even read the court's opinion?
- reverius42 8mo agoNo, just news articles. Perhaps the news media have misrepresented the outcome here.