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Tools Do Not Create: Human Authorship In The Use Of Generative Artificial Intelligence, Michael D. Murray

Journal of Law, Technology, & the Internet

Artistic tools, from brushes to complex algorithms, don’t create art; human artists do. The advent of generative AI tools like Midjourney, DALL-E, and Stable Diffusion has blurred this understanding, causing observers to believe these tools are the authors of the artworks they produce, even so far as to imagine that the artworks are “created” by the AI in the copyright sense of the word. Not so.

The U.S. Copyright Office recently issued guidance on the copyrightability of works produced using generative AI tools. The Office has accepted the narrative that AI tools perform the steps of authorship, conceiving of the …

An Idea Of Authorship: Orson Welles, The War Of The Worlds Copyright, And Why We Should Recognize Idea-Contributors As Joint Authors, Timothy J. Mcfarlin

Case Western Reserve Law Review

Did Orson Welles co-author the infamous War of the Worlds broadcast? The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has told us no, primarily because he only contributed the idea behind the broadcast, and ideas alone can’t be copyrighted. “An Idea of Authorship” challenges this premise—that ideas, no matter how significant, cannot qualify for joint authorship in collaborative works—and argues that we as a society should, under certain circumstances, recognize idea-contributors like Welles as joint authors. We should do so to further our society’s interest in encouraging future creations, as well as out of a sense of equity and fairness to idea-contributors, …

Deprivatizing Copyright, Subha Ghush

Case Western Reserve Law Review

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Comment: Copywrongs Will Not Make Copyright, Mark Avsec

Case Western Reserve Law Review

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A Comment On New York Times V. Tasini, David Lange

Case Western Reserve Law Review

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Extraterritorial Implications Of The Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Adam D. Fuller

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

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Overlapping Interests In Derivative Works And Compilations, Christine Wallace

Case Western Reserve Law Review

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The Limitation Of Copyright And Patents By The Rules For The Free Movement Of Goods In The European Common Market, Valentine Korah

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

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Judicial Creation Of The Prima Facie Tort Of Plagiarism In Furtherance Of American Protection Of Moral Rights, Carolyn W. Davenport

Case Western Reserve Law Review

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Performers' Rights Under The General Revision Of Copyright Law, L. James Juliano

Case Western Reserve Law Review

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Copyrights--Infringement--Pictorial Works [ United Artists Televwson, Inc. V. Fortnightly Corp., 255 F. Supp. 177 (S.D.N.Y. 1966)], Robert J. Crump

Case Western Reserve Law Review

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Renewal Rights, A Statutory Anachronism, Thomas R. Skulina

Case Western Reserve Law Review

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