Ep. 8 – AI Generated Content and Copyright

Today's episode is going to be an important one, but a short one. We're going to talk about something that has become a hot topic in the current marketplace within entrepreneur community, in the online business space, community. I'm talking about artificial intelligence or. Better known as ai. AI generated content right now is incredibly popular.

There are so many AI tools out there that do all kinds of things from creating content, creating images creating images from text or simply Creating an entire sales page or a newsletter or a letter based on a little prompt that you give it to. For example, I'm talking about a tool like chat, G t P, I'm talking about a tool like Jasper.

So AI is very useful nowadays. It definitely helps with productivity. It lessens the number of minutes or hours that you're going to spend on a particular task, but it does come with certain questions when it comes to copyright protection. As generally speaking, we've covered this many times before.

There are. Letters that you can send, like cease and desist letters. There is money that you can ask for if they generated income based on your content or ideas and so on. And of course there's the whole court process. If somebody does not listen to you, they does not abide by the rules when you ask them to stop.

And you take ownership of that, but the generation part is done by the ai. So can you actually own the copyright rights to the AI generate content? Can you register a copyright for that content? Nowadays, I know several course creators who have created an entire online. Based on AI generated content.

They gave it some prompts, they gave it some formatting guidelines, and the AI listened to them and produced or generated content based on what they wanted. There are people out there who create entire newsletters. Sales pages based on AI generated content. There are programs such as AI programs out there that generate images based on the particular text that you're giving it to.

This is one of the many questions that the copyright office, the US Copyright Office is trying to answer these days. Now they are taking into notice the fact that times are changing, the fact that software is advancing. There's all kinds of new advancements and new what's the word I'm looking for?

Like new softwares, new tools that come into play that do all kinds of different things so the times aren't stagnant. We're not still writing the same way we wrote 200 years ago. So obviously we need to walk with the time. We need to keep up with the changes, but that raises questions for the copyright.

Created by ai. You as the person, as the human author, didn't have any input. The nudge, you just gave it some prompts, and it actually generated an entire, let's say, book on a particular topic. Then that will not be registerable for copyright purposes. Reason being is because under the copyright law and under the US Constitution as well, copyright requires input by a human author.

Maybe you need some filler pages here and there. Maybe you have a particular idea, but you don't know how to express it. You don't know how to put it into words to make sense better. So you use something like, let's say, chat, G B T to generate this idea, and you include that in the book. Now, when you go to register your book, what you're going to tell the copyright office is that.

The entire book will be protected, but the particular sections generated by AI will not be protected. This notice is required when you're filling out your copyright registration application online. There is a portion there that you will need to disclose that. Now whether you need to disclose if you are the sole author.

Then you don't have to disclose that AI was a co-author. You just need to say that portions have been generated or portions have been written with the help of an AI software, however, If you co-wrote the book with the help of an ai, if the AI has been a major player in your journey to write this book and most of the content has been generated by this software, then you do need to disclose that AI was a co-author.

But as of right now, they are not completely convinced that AI work should be protected. In fact, I'm still not convinced as an attorney intellectual property attorney that AI work should be protected under copyrights just because there is a lot that goes into creating content. That you as the human author, decide it's not just writing about something, it's how you write about that thing, your stylistic approach, your formatting, your language that you use your tone.

Technically shouldn't get copyright protection because it is not created by a human. It is not a human work. It is not a work of authorship. And as we said, authors are described or defined as humans. As of right now, non-humans are excluded from the list of author. That's basically what I wanted to tell you about content when it comes to AI generated content and copyright protection.

Then I will paraphrase it. I will change it around to the point where it's my work. It's my words, it's my tone, it's my stylistic approach to the content. So if you do this azu if you take AI generated content and treat it as a building block, a foundation to. Build your content on top of, and you take that AI generated content and change it around, make it yours.

Get copyright protection as of right now. Again, we don't know what will happen in a few months. I doubt it's going to change to the point where they will say, AI gets protection just like human authorship, but we never know Things are changing and law needs to keep up with that as well. But this is basically the gist of copyright protection, ai.

Be careful how you use it. If your goal is to be able to protect the content from infringement, right now is not the best time to use. AI in that kind of a work. The way it gives you, the way it generates that content, if you wanna use it as an idea, use it as an inspiration. Take whatever it gives you and then start paraphrasing it.

I can't wait to read all of your questions and responses. Have a great one. Talk to you soon.