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Can AI-generated innovation be protected?

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    • If an AI firm uses pirated versions of a copyrighted work, like the Game of Thrones series, to produce something "substantially similar", then that would constitute an infringement.
    • If an AI firm uses pirated versions of a copyrighted work, like the Game of Thrones series, to produce something "substantially similar", then that would constitute an infringement. PHOTO: HBO
    Caitlin Burnett

    Caitlin Burnett

    Published Fri, Oct 20, 2023 · 10:00 AM

    IN LATE August, a Washington DC court ruled that work created by artificial intelligence (AI) cannot be protected by copyright.

    Judge Beryl Howell said the case – a 2018 piece of art submitted by Stephen Thaler to the Copyright Office – was “not very complex”.

    “We are approaching new frontiers in copyright as artists put AI in their toolbox”, which will raise challenging questions for copyright law, Howell wrote in her decision.

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