No. Any number of people can make derivative works based on the same public domain work. If each derivative work is original , creative, authored by a human, and fixed in a tangible medium, then each creator of a derivative work can claim and register a copyright in the work he or she created. The
No. If you make a derivative work that is based on a public domain work, you can only claim copyright in the derivative work, not in the original public domain work. Creating a derivative work that incorporates elements of a public domain work does not “resurrect” the copyright that has entered the public domain. Once
Yes. AI-generated output infringes a copyright when it substantially reproduces the protected expression of an existing work, even if the AI user did not consciously intend to copy a specific work. An independently created work, however, does not infringe the copyright in an identical or substantially similar work. Creating an identical work is infringement only
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