The US Copyright Office has released a new report on the copyrightability of works created using generative AI. For people working with #OER, these bullets from the Executive Summary will be of particular interest: - Questions of copyrightability and AI can be resolved pursuant to existing law, without the need for legislative change. - Copyright does not extend to purely AI-generated material, or material where there is insufficient human control over the expressive elements. - Based on the functioning of current generally available technology, prompts do not alone provide sufficient control. This reaffirms that the material we create with generative AI is NOT ELIGIBLE for copyright protection, meaning it is in the public domain. Meaning it is OER. h/t to @cgreen for the pointer to the new report. copyright.gov/ai/Copyright-a…

New essay - Where #OpenEducation Meets #GenerativeAI: OELMs. "Over the next several years course materials will likely shift from formats that look more like traditional textbooks toward formats that look more like large language models (LLMs) and other generative AI tools. The shift to these tools, which comes with the risks like those described above, threatens to erode important progress toward affordability, access, and equity made by the open education movement. Understanding that LLMs are course materials can help us think more clearly about what the future of course materials might look like and how and why open continues to be important going forward." opencontent.org/blog/archive…