| his prompt might be the result of human creativity but even in that case it's more than likely not to be a copyrightable expression of human creativity. a copyrightable expression of human creativity in that case would need to be substantial enough in size to carry an imprint exlusive to your boss. "why'd the chicken cross the road? to get to the other side" is not copyrightable. you can dress it up all you want, "why didst thy chickencock traverseth thee highway?..." etc would not qualify as something that would be exclusively yours/your bosses, because that trick is still rote. BUT: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways I like to see you work. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height and number of your pull requests My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight of your overnight toils For the ends of being and ideal grace you provide me when you ship! (i'm just extending each line of Elizabeth Barrett Browning https://poets.org/poem/how-do-i-love-thee-sonnet-43 ) that would be copyrightable if it was original to your boss. The law and interpretation of the law does not have the tidy and necessary obsession with fencepost errors and corner cases. It deals with them by stepping back and saying "what would an ordinary person think should be copyrightable vs what would be more akin to the wordgames that clever nerds on the playground get beat up for? |