What does the author suggest about authorship?
When a machine produces an image or a poem, who is its author? One answer is that nobody is: authorship requires a mind that intends a meaning, and a program only follows instructions. Another is that the person who wrote the prompt is the author, as a photographer is the author of a photograph taken with a camera that did most of the work. The comparison with photography is instructive but incomplete. The photographer chooses the subject, the angle and the moment; a loosely worded prompt may leave nearly every decision to the system. Perhaps authorship comes in degrees, rising with the number of meaningful choices made by the person. On that view the law need not search for a single answer, but only decide how much creative control justifies protection.
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: E. It may be a matter of degree depending on how many meaningful choices a person makes
- Step 1: The passage ends by suggesting that authorship may come in degrees, rising with meaningful choices.
- Step 2: The only choice consistent with this is "It may be a matter of degree depending on how many meaningful choices a person makes".
Answer
It may be a matter of degree depending on how many meaningful choices a person makes.
Why not the others: Authorship wholly with the program, wholly with the prompt-writer, with nobody, or identical for all works are each absolute claims, while the author suggests degrees.
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