Why does the author call the comparison with photography 'instructive but incomplete'?
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: B. Photographers make many decisions that a loosely worded prompt may not
- Step 1: The photograph analogy supports the prompt-writer view, but the passage then lists the decisions a photographer makes, which a loose prompt may leave to the system.
- Step 2: So the analogy is useful but not exact.
Answer
Photographers make many decisions that a loosely worded prompt may not.
Why not the others: The comparison is about decisions, not sophistication, quality, credit or detail.
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