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India Copyrght Office rules Thaler, not AI, can be author of AI-generated work “A Recent Entrance to Paradise,” which does satisfy copyright’s requirement of originality
Read more: India Copyrght Office rules Thaler, not AI, can be author of AI-generated work “A Recent Entrance to Paradise,” which does satisfy copyright’s requirement of originality“You win some, you lose some” seems the apt phrase to describe the decision just handed down by India’s Copyright Office regarding the registration of the AI-generated work “A Recent Entrance to Paradise.” Dr. Stephen won on his contention that the AI-generated work satisfied India Copyright Law’s requirement of originality, but he lost on his…
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Agents for Jerry Falade reportedly withdraw $2 million book deal with Minotaur due to concerns about possible AI use. AI book witch hunt fells another author.
Read more: Agents for Jerry Falade reportedly withdraw $2 million book deal with Minotaur due to concerns about possible AI use. AI book witch hunt fells another author.The Guardian reports that the agents for debut book author Jerry Falade withdrew the manuscript for his book “Call Me, I’ll Hide the Body.” The book was much coveted by publishers. Falade’s agent Marc Gerald held the auction for the U.S. print. Minotaur, an imprint of Macmillan US, won the auction for reportedly the price…
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AI book witch hunt: BookTok rails v. The Atlantic’s Will Oremus article on Tuhin Chakrabarty’s study that suggests Daggermouth is partly AI-generated book based on AI detector Pangram & rare expressions. H.M. Wolfe denies it. BookTokkers defend her.
Read more: AI book witch hunt: BookTok rails v. The Atlantic’s Will Oremus article on Tuhin Chakrabarty’s study that suggests Daggermouth is partly AI-generated book based on AI detector Pangram & rare expressions. H.M. Wolfe denies it. BookTokkers defend her.Will Oremus’s article on “Is This What Comes After AI Slop?, Daggermouth could be the first best-selling novel partly written by a chatbot.” BookTok is a fascinating community. The Atlantic’s Will Oremus may soon found out how fascinating–and fierce. This past week, Oremus wrote a 1,500 word essay, provocatively titled “Is This What Comes After AI…
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Kenya Copyright Board finds insufficient evidence in record to determine if sufficient human intervention in allegedly AI generated work. But decision recognizes test: “sufficient human intervention/ effort giving the work original character, as per Section 22(3)(a).”
Read more: Kenya Copyright Board finds insufficient evidence in record to determine if sufficient human intervention in allegedly AI generated work. But decision recognizes test: “sufficient human intervention/ effort giving the work original character, as per Section 22(3)(a).”Kenya’s Copyright Tribunal found insufficient evidence in the record whether a literary work for a series of “Bible Scripture Stories” that Cynthia Beldina Akoth was commissioned to write for the Aryeh Movement. The dispute centered around who owned the copyright (if any) to the work–Akoth or Aryeh. Kenya Copyright Board (KECOBO) originally registered the work in…
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Will Anthropic’s Boris Cherny be the one most responsible for killing copyrights for computer programs in U.S.?
Read more: Will Anthropic’s Boris Cherny be the one most responsible for killing copyrights for computer programs in U.S.?It’s been fun and fascinating to listen to Claude Code inventor and head Boris Cherny over the past 6 months. Cherny’s now saying that Claude Code is not only writing 100% of the lines of code at Anthropic and other companies, but Claude Code is the one reviewing the computer programs for bugs. He also…
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Elon Musk: human coding will be gone by end of 2026
Read more: Elon Musk: human coding will be gone by end of 2026All signs are pointing in the same direction: AI agents will replace human coding of computer programs. Elon Musk even predicts it will be over for human coding by the end of 2026. This prediction seems consistent with how rapidly Anthropic, the maker of Claude Code, is letting its AI write all the lines of…
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Is Anthropic’s Boris Cherny just abandoning copyright for computer programs of Anthropic?
Read more: Is Anthropic’s Boris Cherny just abandoning copyright for computer programs of Anthropic?It’s been fascinating to listen to Claude Code head Boris Cherny over the past few months. In each new video, Cherny touts how much less coding he does because Claude Code just does it for him. Well, in the latest video, Cherny now even says he no longer writes the prompts to Claude Code for…
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Film director Martin Scorsese uses AI to storyboard movies. Becomes advisor to AI company Black Forest Labs.
Read more: Film director Martin Scorsese uses AI to storyboard movies. Becomes advisor to AI company Black Forest Labs.Martin Scorsese just shook up Hollywood. Not with his latest film but with embracing of the use of AI as a tool. He’s even joined the German AI company Black Forest Labs as an advisor. In the video below, he explains how he uses AI to storyboard films and to help others visualize his ideas…
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Google claims its AI agents using Gemini 3.5 Flash created a decent operating system by “a single prompt” alone. But does it fail to qualify for copyright then?
Read more: Google claims its AI agents using Gemini 3.5 Flash created a decent operating system by “a single prompt” alone. But does it fail to qualify for copyright then?One of the most fascinating developments in Silicon Valley is the extent to which AI companies are publicly boasting that they used AI agents to generate “100 percent” of the source code for a computer program. In their view, the boast is better if humans did practically nothing. And AI did it all! I’ve written…
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Is Claude killing Anthropic’s copyrights?
Read more: Is Claude killing Anthropic’s copyrights?I continue to be most surprised by how publicly Anthropic is boasting about how Claude Code is writing all lines of computer code at Anthropic. Here’s Claude Code head Boris Cherny recently stating: We use Claude for literally everything. There’s no more manually written code anywhere at the company [Anthropic]. All of the SQL is…