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Re: AI disclosure [was: AI slop "contributions" to IETF working groups]

Donald Eastlake <d3e3e3@gmail.com> Thu, 12 February 2026 15:06 UTC

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From: Donald Eastlake <d3e3e3@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2026 10:06:25 -0500
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Subject: Re: AI disclosure [was: AI slop "contributions" to IETF working groups]
To: Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca>
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I am not a lawyer but I think these things can be complex. For example, if
you have text where each paragraph is in the public domain but there is
substantial human creativity in the selection and arrangement of the
paragraphs, I believe you can have copyright asserted to protect the human
creative aspect of the resulting document.

Thanks,
Donald

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On Thu, Feb 12, 2026 at 08:17 Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca>
wrote:

>
> John R Levine <johnl@taugh.com> wrote:
>     >> > In the United States, the answer is nobody.  US courts have held
>     >> that > only people can create copyrighted or patented material, not
>     >> robots or > monkeys.*
>     >>
>     >> So, if IETF (Trust) can't own/license a copyright on an I-D/RFC
>     >> produced like that, then I don't think it can pass NoteWell.
>
>     > It's the other way around.  Only material written by people can be
>     > copyrighted so anything written by a monkey or a robot is in the
> public
>     > domain and anyone can do anything they want with it.  It's sort of
> like
>     > material written by the US federal government which by policy is also
>     > public domain.
>
> So, the IETF Trust/RPC can apply a copyright to this public domain content?
> I'm not certain that actually works world-wide.
>
> --
> Michael Richardson <mcr+IETF@sandelman.ca>, Sandelman Software Works
>  -= IPv6 IoT consulting =-                      *I*LIKE*TRAINS*
>
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>
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