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Considering the role of humans in copyright protection of outputs produced by artificial intelligence.

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cover image Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM  Volume 63, Issue 7
July 2020
102 pages
ISSN:0001-0782
EISSN:1557-7317
DOI:10.1145/3407166
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Published: 18 June 2020
Published in CACM Volume 63, Issue 7

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