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https://www.copyright.gov/ai/Copyright-and-Artificial-Intell...

> Modifying or Arranging AI-Generated Content

> Generating content with AI is often an initial or intermediate step, and human authorship may be added in the final product.

> As explained in the AI Registration Guidance, “a human may select or arrange AI-generated material in a sufficiently creative way that ‘the resulting work as a whole constitutes an original work of authorship.’”

> A human may also “modify material originally generated by AI technology to such a degree that the modifications meet the standard for copyright protection.”

> As several commenters noted, human authors should be able to claim copyright if they select, coordinate, and arrange AI-generated material in a creative way.

> This would provide protection for the output as a whole (although not the AI-generated material alone).

> A number of commenters also made the point that if a user edits, adapts, enhances, or modifies AI-generated output in a way that contributes new authorship, the output would be entitled to protection.

> Although such works would not technically qualify as “derivative works,” derivative authorship provides a helpful analogy in identifying originality.

> Again, the copyright would extend to the material the human author contributed but would not extend to the underlying AI-generated content itself.

Interesting link, thanks. What about the contradiction between the next two sentences?

“a human may select or arrange AI-generated material in a sufficiently creative way that ‘the resulting work as a whole constitutes an original work of authorship.’”

"copyright would extend to the material the human author contributed but would not extend to the underlying AI-generated content itself."

The linked document is mentioning the act of selecting AI generated images for a comic book as an example, where the result is adding material that is copyrightable on its own merit. I am not sure if the same line of reasoning would apply to programming.

"in one early case, for instance, the Office found that the selection and arrangement of AI-generated images with human-authored text in a comic book were protectable as a compilation."

I think that AI is adding an extra layer of politics to just about everything. It is as if we are entering a phase of super-extra politics, as everyone is trying to figure out what should come next.

Instead of a war with machines we get an eternal war among lawyers and managers. Don't know which prospect is worse.