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US appeals court says AI authors don't qualify for copyright. (go.theregister.com)
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Computer scientist Stephen Thaler again told his 'Creativity Machine' can't earn a ©

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago

Well, AI-generated things are in the public domain since as you said, they can't be copyrighted, LegalEagle on youtube actually brought this up, but it was in regards to NFTs and how those were almost all AI generated therefore you can't buy it's copyright and own it.

He also talked about a case of a famous picture where a monkey (or whatever a primate) took a picture with a photographers camera and then he wanted to sue for copyright infringement and it was tossed because the monkey was the author and only humans can have copyright.