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How to check copyright?

How to check copyright?

Posted Oct 3, 2025 0:16 UTC (Fri) by pizza (subscriber, #46)
In reply to: How to check copyright? by mb
Parent article: Fedora floats AI-assisted contributions policy

> Can you back this up with some actual legal text or descriptions from lawyers?

Only stuff created by a human is eligible for copyright protection.

See https://www.copyright.gov/comp3/chap300/ch300-copyrightab... section 307.

Doesn't get any simpler than that.


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How to check copyright?

Posted Oct 3, 2025 7:01 UTC (Fri) by mb (subscriber, #50428) [Link]

> Only stuff created by a human is eligible for copyright protection.

That is a completely different topic, though.
This is about *re*-producing existing actually copyrighted content.


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