A new federal ruling states human authorship remains an “essential part of a valid copyright claim”

  • treefrog@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    If he had made an automated toaster, we wouldn’t let him copyright the toast that comes out of it.

    He owns the patent. He doesn’t get to copyright the toast too.

        • Whiskey Pickle@lemmy.ml
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          1 year ago

          possibly under the current law. when it comes to, say, lab-grown meat, there are specific, patented processes for doing that which can produce a specific result that could possibly be copyrighted. I think it would be hard to argue in court that it’s a “creative work”, but maybe? it wouldn’t surprise me if some particularly unscrupulous company made an attempt to do so.

          we very badly need IP law reform.