Show Notes
Did the US Copyright office just declare that AI is the artist, not the tool?
Does their new report raise more questions than it answers? Robb and Josh welcome back Ed Klaris, Managing Partner at Klaris Law and Columbia Law professor, for part two of their discussion on the office’s ongoing Copyright and Artificial Intelligence report, focusing on copyrightability.
Klaris returns with critical insights into what these updates to copyright law mean with more and more people now using generative AI as part of their creative process. The report sets some useful guidelines for which aspects of AI-assisted creative projects are copyrightable, yet it also sparks new questions about the boundaries between human and machine-generated output.
Find out more about Ed Klaris and his work here: https://www.klarislaw.com
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In this episode, we mention: US Copyright Office’s report on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence (Part 1: Digital Replicas and Part 2: Copyrightability): https://www.copyright.gov/ai/ An AI-Generated Picture Won an Art Prize: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/02/technology/ai-artificial-intelligence-artists.html DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence software company: https://www.deepseek.com/ What Air Canada Lost In ‘Remarkable’ Lying AI Chatbot Case: https://www.forbes.com/sites/marisagarcia/2024/02/19/what-air-canada-lost-in-remarkable-lying-ai-chatbot-case/ Cursor, an AI code editor: https://www.cursor.com/ The Invisible Machines episode, "S4E13 Are generative AI tools unlawful to use?”: S4E13 Are generative AI tools unlawful to use?
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