Matthew Bedell (U Akron) has posted “AI Works & Human Authorship” on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
This comment serves as a counterargument that any final product containing purely AIgenerated material cannot have human authorship. Human advancement is being stymied by overrestrictive rules governing AI and human authorship. The United States Copyright Office (USCO) has begun to change its stance with the recently released second part of the Copyright and Artificial Intelligence report. However, these changes are insufficiently clear enough to allow for human authorship of copyrightable material made by AI and overseen by a person. I explore the argument that human authorship comes from creative expression, that AI empowers said expression, and that utilizing AI in furtherance of creative expression is therefore owned by the human author.