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Part One - Thank the Copyright Office for seeking public comment:

Thank you for opening these important questions up for public comment.

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I appreciate the Office’s interest in this topic and its request for public feedback.

Part Two - Who you are and why do you care?

I am an author/artist whose living depends on my being able to monetize my work

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I am a supporter of authors and artists, and recognize that it is important in a democratic society to support the creation of art.

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I am an author/artist whose work appears on my website.

Part Three - there is a strong public policy in granting authors the exclusive right to their works for a limited time (ie during the copyright period)

Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution requires Congress pass laws “ To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.”  Permitting generative AI to train on copyrighted works without fairly compensating Authors for the Right to their Writings is inconsistent with the Constitution.

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There is a strong policy to promote art by allowing authors exclusive rights in their creative works during a set period of time.  While a work is under copyright, therefore, it should not be used without the author’s consent to train generative AI.  To do so would violate the author’s exclusive rights to control their work while copyright applies.

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The Copyright Act places time limits on when an author has exclusive rights in their creative works.  This balances allowing the author to promote their work and recover for their efforts against the public’s ability to use the work.  Applying this system to generative AI is fair - generative AI may be trained on materials in the public domain, but it would be a violation of an author’s exclusive rights in their works to train generative AI on the author’s work while it is under copyright.

Part Four - what do you want?

The Copyright Office should adopt positions finding that training generative AI on copyrighted works without the consent of the authors of those works violates the Copyright Act.

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The Copyright Office should adopt positions that copyright infringement includes training generative AI on copyrighted works when it is done without the permission of the authors whose works are being used in the training.

Part Five - Thank you again for your time.

Thank you for considering these comments.

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