@wollman @jamie this is all really interesting. Sounds like I misunderstood the importance of registering. I had thought that as long as you could prove that you had created a work, you were good. And I had recently read an article about someone tracking down a lost pilot for a sitcom to the LOC where they were able to watch it, so I had assumed that was how it generally worked.

@jamie no worries, it didn’t come across that way. Your sibling could easily know something I don’t. I just suspect it’s more complicated than the presence of ai code canceling out any copyright claims on adjacent code. Now that I think about it, do companies even register copyright for their code? I’ve personally never seen it done. It would mean that anyone could go to the library of congress and see it I believe. I’ve only done books but I had to send them a pdf.

@jamie not sure this is right based on my understanding. The things you quoted are about copyright registration, not copyright ownership. If I write a book, I own the copyright to that even if I never register it. If it was subsequently published with an ai generated appendix, I can’t see it invalidating the copyright on the non ai work. I’m not a lawyer either so I could be wrong.