Jayashree Mitra Quoted in Politico: “How AI Is Challenging the Idea of Human Creativity”

Jayashree Mitra was quoted in a Politico article titled “How AI Is Challenging the Idea of Human Creativity.” The article examines a new copyright issue with profound implications for intellectual property law: how much artificial intelligence can a human use and still call a piece of work — whether it’s art, a book, or music — their own?

There’s broad consensus in the legal community about how to apply this principle to more traditional technologies and programs. “Most of us can use Photoshop without fear that this is not copyrightable ... or if you autotune your music, we don’t have that fear that we are somehow jeopardizing our intellectual property rights,” said Mitra. “[With] AI, we are still in a limbo.”

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