From the U.S. Copyright Office:
The U.S. Copyright Office extended the deadline to submit comments in response to its August 30, 2023, notice of inquiry regarding artificial intelligence and copyright. The new deadlines will ensure that members of the public have sufficient time to prepare fulsome responses to the Office's questions so the Office can proceed with its inquiry with the benefit of a complete record of public input and feedback.
Initial written comments are now due by 11:59 p.m. eastern time on Monday, October 30, 2023. Reply comments are now due by 11:59 p.m. eastern time on Wednesday, November 29, 2023.
The Federal Register notice announcing this extension and additional information, including instructions for submitting comments, are available at https://www.copyright.gov/policy/artificial-intelligence/.
The Copyright Office webpage entitled "Copyright and Artificial Intelligence" contains a lot of useful information and I encourage you to look at it. One of the resources on that page is "Artificial Intelligence: The Copyright Connection" from 2021. I think the questions asked by Steve Andreadis are still at the center of this discussion:
- How are artists, scientists, and businesses inspired by the technological advances of AI?
- When AI produces a creative work, is the expression owned by human or machine?
- What is owed to creators of AI input data from a copyright or moral rights perspective?
- What ethical implications are involved in selecting a data set and building an AI system?
If you have thoughts on these and other questions regarding AI and copyright, consider submitting them to the Copyright Office.
