Seems a parent can never have a conversation with another adult without being interrupted by one of the kids. That again proves to be the case as two moms chat on the couch only to have a young son’s voice intervene, “Check out Toby’s new trick!”
At first the ladies keep talking but then the trick is brought to them as Toby, the family dog, comes into the living room–actually he’s more slowly sliding into the room, along the floor, wiping his backside on the carpet.
The mom freaks out, yelling at Toby to stop but to no avail.
Indeed it’s time to get the carpet cleaned by a Stanley Steemer.
“Toby’s New Trick” was directed by Bob Ebel of Ebel Productions, Chicago, for The Loomis Agency, Dallas.
Jason Schettler was Ebel’s exec producer with Marsie Wallach serving as producer. The DP was David Kessler.
The Loomis team included executive creative director/art director Mark Sullivan, creative director Mark Tuggle, associate creative director/art director Tina Tackett and producer Cathy King.
Offline editor was Bill Ebel of Ebel Productions.
AI-Assisted Works Can Get Copyright With Enough Human Creativity, According To U.S. Copyright Office
Artists can copyright works they made with the help of artificial intelligence, according to a new report by the U.S. Copyright Office that could further clear the way for the use of AI tools in Hollywood, the music industry and other creative fields.
The nation's copyright office, which sits in the Library of Congress and is not part of the executive branch, receives about half a million copyright applications per year covering millions of individual works. It has increasingly been asked to register works that are AI-generated.
And while many of those decisions are made on a case-by-case basis, the report issued Wednesday clarifies the office's approach as one based on what the top U.S. copyright official describes as the "centrality of human creativity" in authoring a work that warrants copyright protections.
"Where that creativity is expressed through the use of AI systems, it continues to enjoy protection," said a statement from Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter, who directs the office.
An AI-assisted work could be copyrightable if an artist's handiwork is perceptible. A human adapting an AI-generated output with "creative arrangements or modifications" could also make it fall under copyright protections.
The report follows a review that began in 2023 and fielded opinions from thousands of people that ranged from AI developers, to actors and country singers.
It shows the copyright office will continue to reject copyright claims for fully machine-generated content. A person simply prompting a chatbot or AI image generator to produce a work doesn't give that person the ability to copyright that work, according to the report. "Extending protection to material whose expressive elements are determined by a machine ...... Read More