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Computer scientist won’t give up fight to copyright AI-made art after court loss.

But Millett pushed back, writing that "statutory construction requires more than just finding a sympathetic dictionary definition." Perhaps most glaringly, the duration of copyright is typically limited to "the author’s lifespan or to a period that approximates how long a human might live," Millett wrote. And critically, authors granted copyrights have intentions, whereas "machines lack minds and do not intend anything," Millett wrote.

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