There is debate about who owns the copyright to an AI--created product.
The chief academic officer of Lumen Learning, David Wiley, contacted the US Copyright Office "seeking to register [a] computer-generated work as a work-for-hire to the owner.” The Copyright Office responded that it “will not register works produced by a machine or mere mechanical process that operates without any creative input or intervention from a human author because, under the statute, ‘a work must be created by a human being.’” It remains to be seen if this is the final answer or if this subject will be fought in the courts.
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