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The US Copyright Office issued Part 2 of its report on generative AI, which examines whether works that use generative AI can be copyrighted. Consistent with the paper they issued in early 2023, the office reasserts the existing framework that a work must be human authored to be copyrighted, and that “questions of copyrightability and AI can be resolved pursuant to existing law, without the need for legislative change.” The report also assesses the copyrightability for AI-created work, and compares US policy to those around the world. The report does take on the subtler questions around uses of AI by …
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Author of HUNGRY FOR WHAT Maria Bastaros's LITTLE CREATURE, pitched as a Samanta Schweblin's deconstruction of traditional monster narratives through a feminist lens meets Marian Enriquez's folkloric horror, a psychological horror that blurs the lines between trauma, self-destruction, and monstrosity, to Yezanira Venecia at Primero Sueno, in a good deal, in a pre-empt, for publication in fall 2026 and spring 2027, by Marta Gonzalez at MB Agency. Rights: marta@mbagencialiteraria.es
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