Abstract
Artificial intelligence has come a long way since the days of the “heartless” tin man of the Wizard of Oz, and the cool, precise autonomy of Kit from Nightrider. We have moved rapidly from mere questions about what life could be like with autonomous machines, to having books, movies, and albums created using machines for part or even all of the process. The Copyright Act, however, has not come as long of a way since the implementation of the most recent version of the Act in 1976. Recently, the federal district court for the District of Columbia held that works created using artificial intelligence required a certain amount of human input for the AI generated output to be copyrightable. The United States Copyright Office, however, has put forward a stance that leaves artists confused and unclear of how much human input is actually required. This note will review the history of copyright protection under U.S. law, and how generative AI fits into that model, before offering solutions of how the Copyright Act could be amended to account for such instances of collaboration between man and machine.
Recommended Citation
Giovanni LoMonaco, The Times They Are A-Changin': Adapting Copyright Law to Generative AI, 45 Pace L. Rev. 573 (2025)DOI: https://doi.org/10.58948/2331-3528.2111
Available at: https://digitalcommons.pace.edu/plr/vol45/iss2/7
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