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Malcolm Bain

Malcolm Bain

Partner at Across Legal specializing in information technology law, intellectual property, open source software, and technology licensing over 20 years of experience.

Jun 9, 2026

9:24
He could shoot it
9:25
... yeah, but that's what photographers do.
9:26
Okay? Anyway, so we've got to the same here is where, you know, there's minimal human input in the prompt, uh, and in post-prompt engineering, as we call it.
9:35
Uh, uh, and, and, but the result actually is created, written, you know, drafted, produced by the machine.
9:43
Okay? So, so there's this split between the, the kind of the, the, the direct link between human being painting a picture or human being coding software to human being giving instructions to a machine, and the machine actually, uh, drafting the result.
9:59
Okay? And then we have another problem in copyright, is that there's this i-i-idea and expression split.
10:07
So i-it, copyright does not protect ideas.

8 MINS LATER

18:36
All right.

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