Found this UK Intellectual Property Office document to be very interesting in regards to the question of AI-generated content & whether it is copyrightable. People often act like the US Copyright Office’s policy clarifications are the end all be all on these questions, and they are very much not!
Copyright protection for computer-generated works without a human author. These are currently protected in the UK for 50 years…
The UK is one of only a handful of countries to protect works generated by a computer where there is no human creator. The “author” of a “computer-generated work” (CGW) is defined as “the person by whom the arrangements necessary for the creation of the work are undertaken”. Protection lasts for 50 years from the date the work is made.
Lots more to absorb in that document, but wanted to drop a bookmark on this one…
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