There’s No Such Thing as a Computer-Authored Work—And It’s a Good Thing, Too

Citation: James Grimmelmann There’s No Such Thing as a Computer-Authored Work—And It’s a Good Thing, Too.
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Summary

Considers 5 ways computer generated works might be different from others, and demonstrates that copyright author issues with each are not new.

(1) They are embedded in digital copies. (2) People create them using computers rather than by hand. (3) Programs can generate them algorithmically. (4) Programmers as well as users contribute to them. (5) Programs can generate them non-deterministically.