Is it free software?
Is it free software?
Posted Feb 24, 2026 15:08 UTC (Tue) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)In reply to: Is it free software? by rgmoore
Parent article: The Book of Remind
The obvious way to think of it is that an AI cannot claim creation rights over its work. Aka as commented "the ouput of an AI is not copyrightable".
But that clearly does not preclude the AI *copying* a copyrighted work, and hence infringing copyright. Going back to that "Bach and Beethoven" example, here it's inside out, but the principle is the same, with the music the music itself is copyright-free but has a wrapper of copyrightable arrangements, fonts, layout etc. With the AI, the AI wrapper is copyright-free, but the contents may well be copyrighted.
Cheers,
Wol
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