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January 10, 2020 05:40 pm
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AI-Written Articles Are Copyright-Protected, Rules Chinese Court
A Chinese court has ruled that AI-generated works are entitled to copyright protection, in a win for tech giant Tencent. From a report: According to state media outlet China News Service (CNS), a court in Shenzhen this month ruled in favour of Tencent, which claimed that work created by its Dreamwriter robot had been copied by a local financial news company. The Shenzhen Nanshan District People's Court ruled that, in copying the Dreamwriter article, Shanghai Yingxun Technology Company had infringed Tencent's copyright. Dreamwriter is an automated writing system created by Tencent and based on the company's own algorithms. According to the reports, Shanghai Yingxun reposted a financial report written by Dreamwriter in August 2018 without Tencent's permission. The question of whether AI-generated works are protectable under copyright law have been the subject of much debate.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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