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Copyright law ‘struggling’ to parse AI’s ascendancy

People need to document their contributions to receive protection for AI-generated work, legal scholars say

Why does US copyright law have a hard time determining when AI-generated works deserve copyright protection? Rebecca Tushnet and Christopher Bavitz spoke on a recent HLS Beyond panel in response to the Supreme Court's March decision to deny certiorari in Thaler v. Perlmutter. Harvard Law Today's Rebecca Beyer discusses the panel, a recording of which is embedded at the end of the HLT article. 

"The professors agreed that certain industries — including the entertainment business — might come up with their own norms and standards based on ideas outside the intellectual property domain. In May, Hollywood studios agreed to certain limits on AI-generated content in a four-year deal reached with SAG-AFTRA, the labor union that represents more than 150,000 actors, dancers, and media professionals."

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