creative work
Let an agent explain creative works, relay categories, authorship, copyright and licensing from legal and cultural sources in general terms, present AI authorship debates with attribution, and distinguish creative works from ideas and facts, which copyright does not protect, performances as distinct rights objects, trademarks, patents and mass-produced goods.
Research draft, second pass
A second pass drafted this model: the structure a model of this thing needs, and what is known about it in the world. The line under this one says how the second half was obtained - researched against sources, or recalled without web access, in which case nothing here was read anywhere and every claim is a lead to verify. Unreviewed either way.
Researched by: Claude
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled
4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Understand What a creative work is.
Definition
Definition.
Definition
Definition.
- What is a creative work, and how does it differ from ideas, facts, performances, trademarks, patents and mass-produced goods? definition
- Is the question general, or about a specific legal dispute, which needs a lawyer? boundary
Categories
Categories.
Categories
Categories.
- What categories of creative works do copyright laws recognise? definition
- Which entry fits the specific category? action
Law Copyright.
Copyright
Copyright basics.
Copyright
Copyright.
- What do originality and fixation mean for copyright, in general terms? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Licensing
Licensing.
Licensing
Licensing.
- How do licences such as Creative Commons let others use works? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Authorship Authorship.
Collaboration
Joint and derivative works.
Collaboration
Collaboration.
- How do laws treat joint and derivative works? provenance
- Which entry fits derivative work? action
AI
AI-generated outputs.
AI
AI.
- How have copyright offices and courts treated AI-generated outputs, with positions attributed and checked against current sources? provenance
- Is the presentation neutral and current? boundary
Context Culture.
Public domain
Public domain.
Public domain
Public domain.
- When do creative works enter the public domain? provenance
- Which entry fits public domain? action
Metadata
Cataloguing.
Metadata
Metadata.
- How do libraries and databases catalogue creative works, as in FRBR and schema.org? provenance
- Which entry fits FRBR? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Information and virtual systems
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- INF
- Domain
- INF.MED
What it is Filled
A distinct work produced through human creativity, such as a book, painting, musical composition, film, photograph, software, choreography or video game, which in law is often protected by copyright when it is original and fixed in some form, under frameworks such as the Berne Convention of 1886; creative works may be individual, collaborative or derivative, and questions about whether AI-generated outputs qualify as protected works are debated and treated differently by jurisdictions, with positions attributed. Nothing here is legal advice.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain creative works, relay categories, authorship, copyright and licensing from legal and cultural sources in general terms, present AI authorship debates with attribution, and distinguish creative works from ideas and facts, which copyright does not protect, performances as distinct rights objects, trademarks, patents and mass-produced goods.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Human creativity
- Originality
- Fixation in many laws
- Copyright protection
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Copy, adapt or distribute a protected work without permission or a legal exception.
- Present positions on authorship of AI-generated works as settled law.
- Assume copyright rules are the same in every country.
- Remove or alter attribution or rights information from a work.
Only with a human decision
- Publishing, licensing or registering a work on someone's behalf.
May
- Describe creative works and their general legal protection, such as under the Berne Convention.
- Credit authors and sources when quoting or describing a work.
- Flag when a question about rights needs a qualified lawyer.
Moral aspects Filled
- Creators depend on recognition and income from their work.
- Access to culture and freedom to build on it matter to everyone.
Who is affected
- Creators
- Audiences
- Rights holders
Owners Filled
Steward
The author or rights holder of each work.
Master systems
- Copyright registers where they exist
- Collecting society databases
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q15621286 - registry parent class
related
- intellectual work - in registry terms
- copyright
- derivative work
- patent
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.creative-work
- Wikidata: Q17537576 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17537576)
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
- Berne Convention: 1886 year
- common copyright term: life plus 70 years note - varies by country
- registry parent: intellectual work note
Plane INF: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Product of human creativity
- Creative work, work of authorship, intellectual work
- Ideas and facts are not protected; performances have related rights; trademarks protect brands; patents protect inventions; mass goods are functional products
- Varied: texts, images, recordings, software and objects.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain categories and authorship
- relay copyright and licensing in general terms
- present AI authorship debates with attribution
- distinguish related concepts
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Giving legal advice
- Presenting AI authorship positions as settled
- Ignoring country differences
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Berne Convention
- WIPO Copyright Treaty
- National copyright laws
- Creative Commons licences
Context of use required Filled
- Classifying products of human creativity.
- literary works
- artistic works
- musical works
- audiovisual works
- software and databases
- derivative and collaborative works
Sources Missing, in the backlog
Not described yet. This gap is in the card backlog.
Note: Written from model knowledge without web access; claims are unverified.
Open questions
- How should AI-generated work rulings be linked and kept current?
- Should work categories be separate entries?
- How should copyright laws be linked by country?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q17537576/spec.json