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Comment by SpelingBeeChamp | Hacker News Reader

Sure, getting a copyright requires virtually nothing, nothing gets checked, what would they check? It's content you say you created - stamp!

I have registered hundreds of copyrights. That is not at all how it works.

This is exactly how it works:

https://www.copyright.gov/comp3/chap600/ch600-examination-pr...

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I don't think the above comment was implying that copyright can't be registered for works where a computer was used, either in part or fully, to create it. What is being said, I believe, is that you can't register works where the creative process to create that particular work itself (and not the algorithms/training data) was done entirely by a computer.

If you as one person have personally registered hundreds of copyrights that says something about the level of investigation they are capable of doing for each registration. Only a court has the resources to determine whether a copyright exists or not, the copyright office is limited to detecting obvious fraud or ineligible registrations.

>If you as one person have personally registered hundreds of copyrights that says something about the level of investigation they are capable of doing for each registration.

either that or it says something about what that person's job is, and perhaps something about how many people/computing resources copyright office has at disposal to analyze registrations.

Bingo. It should also be noted that for certain works, it is possible to register them as a group.

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