linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [v2] Documentation: Provide guidelines for tool-generated content

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Message-ID: <20251110164225.4b343fe4@gandalf.local.home>
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2025 16:42:25 -0500
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds  <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, "H. Peter Anvin"
 <hpa@...or.com>, Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>, Laurent Pinchart
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] [v2] Documentation: Provide guidelines for
 tool-generated content

On Mon, 10 Nov 2025 16:21:30 -0500
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com> wrote:

> As far as the copyright status of AI output in the US goes, as long as
> its not derivative of something, then it's a non-human creation and as
> such cannot be copyrighted at all, so it's equivalent to public domain.

I believe that's what is currently being argued in court. If AI is trained
on human content and prints out something based on it, is it a non-human
creation?  This isn't a case of a monkey taking a selfie, where the content
provider is clearly non-human. This is a machine that uses human created
content to derive new creations.

-- Steve