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The copyright office does not determine the standards for copyright. They are an advisory and notary organization. Only Congress and the courts do. Copyright
by SR2Z 2mo ago
The copyright office does not determine the standards for copyright. They are an advisory and notary organization.
Only Congress and the courts do. Copyright exists from the moment a work is created, and does not need to be registered with the copyright office.
The law isn't that complicated; if a work was created with a human being with intent, it's probably eligible for copyright protections.
As long as you can convince a court that you did this, the tools you used are not relevant. The vast majority of LLM art falls in this bucket.
- what 2mo agoDo you own the copyright to a painting you commissioned or does the artist? You may have described what you wanted, but the creative work is the output of the artist. Same with an LLM.
- semiquaver 2mo agoThis would be a “work-for-hire,” thus not owned by the artist. As a matter of fact, the law does not even consider the artist to be the author of the work. So the point you thought you were making is actually quite backwards. > A copyrightable work is “made for hire” in two situations: > When it is created by an employee as part of the employee’s regular duties > When a certain type of work is created as a result of an express written agreement between the creator and a party specially ordering or commissioning it > When a work is a made for hire, the hiring or commissioning party is considered the author and the copyright owner. https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ30.pdf https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ30.pdf IANAL but I can imagine the courts bringing this aspect of the law coming into play if Congress continues to be cowardly and fails to pass clear legislation on this topic; courts often analogize to existing scenarios when existing law doesn’t cleanly cover a new one.
- what 2mo agoThanks ChatGPT, but you didn’t actually read the document you cited. Commissioning a painting doesn’t qualify as work for hire wrt to copyright.