Copyright

When you return, an image is waiting on the screen.

Then you send that image to the United States Copyright Office and ask for a copyright in your name.

On the application, you write that the machine created the image autonomously.

Now you try the opposite.

Without that protection, a court has nothing to enforce.

So everyone who makes something with these tools eventually reaches the same practical issue.

Do I own what I just made? the Copyright Office, the federal agency that registers copyrights in the United States, has been clear on part of the answer.

In a report released in January of 2025, it said that artificial intelligence used as an assistive tool does not stop a work from being protected.

They have already put out the publication.

You can go on copyright.gov right now and go and read the publication about their stance on AI.

They don't say that, hey, they know the technology is out there.

So they don't say, we don't have it in there.

Then once you do that, now you have to go to the copyrights.

You have to register on copyright.gov.

These are the things that put you in place of ownership.

I want you all to pause that.

Mike Daly left in 1999, by the way, before Take-Two bought DMA.

Yeah, and you know what? In a real controversial move, Rockstar put copyright strikes on two of his videos that showed how the prototype engine worked back in 2022.

And yeah, so back in 2022, it forced Mike to take down a lot of his videos on YouTube and also a lot of the materials that he uploaded.

Yeah.

You need.

I'm pretty sure copyright works over there the same as it does here.

The minute you put pen to paper, that's your IP.

You have copyright.

So you whack the copyright symbol on your manuscript with the date and your name.

You have

copyright.

That's it.

So what I'm wondering is how can you determine whether or not something actually is a gray matter? Like how can you make sure that you aren't binding people's consciences? I

think it's a really good question and A couple weeks ago, I listened to the chapter from Andrew's book called Copyright, what, A Perversion of Justice, I think it's called, where Andrew proved that Copyright was a perversion of God's justice and he did it by referring to God's law specifically He started with one of God's commandments thou shalt not steal and then Andrew explained what stealing must be for you to violate it and then he showed how copyright doesn't fit in the definition and it was very it was very systematic and very clear to me by the end and yeah, there's just no doubt that copyright doesn't fit under the Eighth Commandment.

And so I think that you always want to root everything that you bind somebody else's conscience with in one of God's Ten Commandments and be able to show how through Scripture it does fit a description of what that commandment requires or forbids.

And that's how you avoid binding other people's Christian liberty.

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Copyright is automatically the authors the minute they finish writing their book.

But when it's all finished and edited and proofread and corrected, then you can copyright it at the US Copyright Office.

Copyright.gov is the address.

I think it's about $85 and you upload a cover image and a PDF of the text.

And that officially registers your book.

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