Who should be eligible for the rewards of copyright protection? The answer shapes human activities across an entire society. From a republican perspective, human creation is worth promoting not merely for its outputs, but because a society of people who write, create, and invent is better equipped for self-governance. As law professor Jane Ginsburg explains, every historical justification for copyrights—natural rights, fairness to creators, incentives for innovation, inducements to disclose —presupposes a human creator. That was no accident.
Source: The Founders’ Case for Human Authorship in the Age of AI