The U.S. Copyright Office recently allowed the registration of an AI-generated video with AI-generated music based on the editing of the AI-generated elements.
The work is titled “Film clip for song Just Like In A Movie (SNEAK PREVIEW)” by Andrew John King. King wrote the lyrics for the song, with the music AI-generated, and then apparently edited a video he AI-generated with the music.
Presumably, the editing of the video consists of King’s selecting, coordinating, or arranging the AI-generated music and video elements, along with King’s original lyrics. The copyright extends to that particular selection or arrangement, along with King’s lyrics, but, the AI-generated elements are excluded from copyright. In other words, the video is a selection and arrangement of (1) copyrightable elements (lyrics) and (2) unconpyrightable elements (AI-generated music and video elements), and the particular selection and arrangement is itself copyrightable.
This is the third such copyright registration of AI-generated works, but there may be others we still have to uncover. And we should expect many others will follow.
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