Cory Doctorow backs US Copyright Office's human-authorship stance on AI
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Doctorow calls the US Copyright Office's position — that only works of human authorship qualify for copyright — the first time in 25 years he's cheered the office's actions. He frames the split as media executives' "sweat of the brow" doctrine versus the legal view that copyright must incentivize human creative expression.
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