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©️ Who owns what AI creates?

Copyright protects creators, and with AI the rules are still new.

When you write a poem or draw a comic, that thing is yours: no one can take it and pass it off as their own. This protection is called copyright, meaning "the right to copy," and it exists to reward creators and to be fair. But AI brings a hard question: if a picture was "drawn" by a computer, whose is it? Yours, who wrote the prompt? The company that built the AI? No one's? The world is asking this right now, and in different countries the rules are not yet all the same, because technology runs faster than laws.

There is another delicate knot. AI learned by looking at works made by real people: painters, musicians, writers. If it then creates something too similar to an artist's work, is that fair? Many say no, because that artist toiled for years. So the golden rule, while grown-ups sort out the laws, is honesty: always say when you used AI, do not pass its work off as entirely your own, and respect those who created before you. Being a creator also means being fair toward the other creators of the world.

🎒 Try it in class (or at home)

Imagine you drew a comic with AI: write a short honest note explaining what you did and what the AI did.

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