AI has no copyright? Legal scholar points to software industry's reliance on non-human works
technollama · x · 2026-11-01
AI law scholar Technollama (Andrés Guadamuz) published a new blog post, "AI has no copyright? Tell that to the software industry," with a companion YouTube video. The piece pushes back on the popular claim that AI-generated outputs can't be protected because there's no human author, arguing the software industry has relied on non-human-generated works for decades — machine-generated code and compiler outputs are routinely treated as protectable under current copyright practice, exposing a tension between theory and industry convention in the AI copyright debate.
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