Assuming that you are a programmer, when you think back to your contract, you will have noticed something like "The employee agrees to that any works created during employment will be solely owned by $company_name"
Copyright _should_ be about allowing workers to make money from the non physical stuff that they produce.
Google spent many many millions undermining that so they could run youtube, the news service and google books (amongst other things.
Disney bought most of congress to do the opposite.
At it's heart copyright is a tool that allows you and me to make a living. However its evolved into a system that allows large corporations to make and hold monopolies.
Now that large corporations can see an opportunity to cut employees out of the system entirely, they are quite happy with AI companies undermining copyright, just so long as they can keep charging for auto generated content.
TLDR:
copyright is automatically assigned to the creator of the specific work, not the thinker.
ie thinker: "build me a box with two yellow rabbit ears"
The text is copyright of the "thinker"
maker: builds a box with yellow rabbit ears Unless the yellow rabbit ears are a specific and recognisable of the thinker's work, its not infringement.
Assuming that you are a programmer, when you think back to your contract, you will have noticed something like "The employee agrees to that any works created during employment will be solely owned by $company_name"
Copyright _should_ be about allowing workers to make money from the non physical stuff that they produce.
Google spent many many millions undermining that so they could run youtube, the news service and google books (amongst other things.
Disney bought most of congress to do the opposite.
At it's heart copyright is a tool that allows you and me to make a living. However its evolved into a system that allows large corporations to make and hold monopolies.
Now that large corporations can see an opportunity to cut employees out of the system entirely, they are quite happy with AI companies undermining copyright, just so long as they can keep charging for auto generated content.
TLDR: copyright is automatically assigned to the creator of the specific work, not the thinker.
ie thinker: "build me a box with two yellow rabbit ears"
The text is copyright of the "thinker"
maker: builds a box with yellow rabbit ears Unless the yellow rabbit ears are a specific and recognisable of the thinker's work, its not infringement.