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AI produces millions of works every second. In this world, "original" is a question for philosophers, not lawyers. Most copyright agents quit. The Copyright Bureau cut staff by 60%.
Xie Ming stayed. He believes humans still exist behind the data.
A client arrived on a Wednesday. They left a memory stick on his desk. It contained a three minute piano song. No one had ever heard it.
Xie Ming asked for proof of human creation. He wanted drafts, timestamps, and revision history. The client said none existed. The music was written with pen and paper.
In 2034, verifying this is nearly impossible.
Xie Ming ran every test. He found:
- The recording came from an old piano model discontinued in 2019.
- AI databases showed no match above 73% similarity.
- Music professors said the harmony did not match AI patterns.
- A small part of the melody matched a song by a composer who died in 2022.
The client revealed the connection. The melody belonged to his father.
There was no legal victory. Xie Ming filed the application with his reports and expert testimony. He argued that human emotion and memory lived in the notes.
The Bureau marked the case as pending.
Xie Ming does not know the result. He only knows how the music feels. A specific transition in the song felt like a person searching for a word and finally finding it.
He cannot prove a machine did not write it. He only knows a machine cannot make him feel that way.
Perhaps feeling is enough.
Source: https://dev.to/wdsega/the-copyright-ghost-sci-fi-short-story-2i2h
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