Human creative contributions: What should the administrator document?
Copyrightability analysis should document qualifying human selection, arrangement, or modification rather than treating AI assistance as decisive.
The question
For a US copyrightability assessment, a research administrator uses an AI system to generate a draft report, then selects sections, rearranges them, and substantially revises the wording. Other ownership and permission questions are separately addressed. What should the administrator document?
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- The prompt’s wording as sole authorship evidence.A prompt alone does not necessarily establish authorship when the system determines the expressive output.
- A blanket statement that all generated text lacks protection.AI assistance does not automatically eliminate protection where qualifying human-authored expression contributes to the work.
- The AI system’s generation speed and model size.Technical generation characteristics do not establish human authorship in the report’s protectable expression.
- Human creative contributions. ✓Documenting human selection, arrangement, and modification supports analysis of protectable human-authored expression in the AI-assisted report.
The trap
Separate the machine-generated material from documented human selection, arrangement, and expressive modification. How to remember it
Copyrightability analysis should document qualifying human selection, arrangement, or modification rather than treating AI assistance as decisive.
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