This document [1] from the US Copyright Office is making the rounds where I work, along with the claim that full-on vibe-coding isn't eligible to be copyrighted in the US. And if that is the case, is it even possible to assign a license to it? Ergo, is it in the public domain?<p>Note that in this document the copyright office addresses the case of image generation, where a person were to throw prompt after prompt at the model until they get something they like, and then possibly add some more prompting to make some adjustments to get the final image. And they plainly state that this is not copyrightable in the US. Isn't this damning to vibe-coding?<p>[1] https://www.copyright.gov/ai/Copyright-and-Artificial-Intelligence-Part-2-Copyrightability-Report.pdf
not able to be copyrighted does imply public domain. the thing is though, nothing is ever 100% vibe coded as far as I can tell, so the connecting stuff and corrections that get manually done end up being protectable elements. I suspect over time we'll get a bunch of contradictory case law and it'll be decades before we really have an answer.