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Copyright and Artificial Intelligence, Part 2: Copyrightability
The Office explains why material generated wholly by AI cannot be copyrighted, why prompting alone does not make the user an author, and how protection still attaches to a human's own expression, selection, arrangement, or creative modification of AI output. Working through it gives you a defensible way to judge which parts of a mixed human and AI research output your institution can actually claim, and how to describe that boundary in writing. A research administrator drafting institutional guidance on AI-assisted scholarship will find the reasoning needed to explain the rule to sceptical colleagues rather than simply assert it.
- Task
- Ethics & compliance
- Time
- 1.5 hours
- Level
- advanced
- Cost
- Free — Nothing to pay. A free account at most.
- Tools
- None in particular
- Published
- 2025-01
- Voice
- US Copyright Office — Whether AI-assisted work — student, faculty, or research output — is copyrightable, a question every university now has to answer.
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