Post #1785035
2026-04-25 17:39 UTC
@hopeless @tomgag
Are copyright and AI compatible?
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@scopecreeppress@jawns.club 2026-04-25 18:24
@bjb @hopeless @tomgag Not currently. But trademark law is a different animal. And in any case, it's presumably just the name, and maybe the wordmark, at issue, so I don't think a vibe-coded product would matter. (IANAL)
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@hopeless@mas.to 2026-04-25 19:27
@bjb @tomgag Depends what you mean by 'compatible'... in the sense of AI holding copyright in its output like a human, it seems it's not going to play out like that. In the sense of a human owning the copyright on AI output, sure. A photographer definitely owns the copyright on images his camera took, and he essentially just pointed it in a direction and pressed a button. I don't think copyright + AI coding assists is going to be any special problem.