Machines learn from existing information, either in the public domain or privately owned. Who owns the output of those machines and why?

<p>This topic is not my area of expertise but I am REALLY interested in where this field is going.</p> <p> </p> <p>It is clear who owns the algorithms. Whoever wrote them. But the output of those algorithms? The person who created the parameters?</p> <p> </p> <p>If you do a Google search, do you own the results? I’ve seen lots of people copy/paste Google results and no one screams plagiarism.</p> <p> </p> <p>But if you took the whole of the content of my books, fed it into a machine learning program and then asked it to produce a blog based on my work and in my style, I think I’d take issue with you putting your name on it as yours.</p> <p> </p> <p>I certainly don’t have the right answer (is there a right answer?) so I asked three people with more knowledge and experience in the space than I have: Atif Agha, Dr. Wayne Buckhanan and Rabbi Yonason Goldson.</p> <p> </p> <p>Our conversation was dynamic and thought provoking. And we didn’t land on a solid answer.</p> <p> </p> <p>What do you think? Who should own the output if your intellectual property was used as the foundation for a machine to learn, dissect and regurgitate?</p> <p> </p> <p>Connect with the panelists:</p> <p>Rabbi Yonason Goldson: <a href='https://www.linkedin.com/in/yonason-goldson/'>https://www.linkedin.com/in/yonason-goldson/</a></p> <p>Dr. Wayne Buckhanan: <a href='https://www.linkedin.com/in/waynebuckhanan/'>https://www.linkedin.com/in/waynebuckhanan/</a></p> <p>Atif Agha: <a href='https://www.linkedin.com/in/atifagha/'>https://www.linkedin.com/in/atifagha/</a></p> <p>Dr Robyn Odegaard: <a href='https://www.linkedin.com/in/robynodegaard/'>https://www.linkedin.com/in/robynodegaard/</a></p> <p> </p> <p>Want a summary of the Quick Hits I post every week, plus the links to the LinkedIn pages of each of the panelist to show up in your in-box every week? Just let me know where to send it: <a href='https://drrobynodegaard.com/quick-hits-notifications/'>https://drrobynodegaard.com/quick-hits-notifications/</a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>  #QuickHits are