1. According to the module, three requirements for copyright protection are originality, fixation, and expression (not idea). Which scenario fails the originality test?
Correct. The Supreme Court in Feist held that alphabetical arrangement of facts — while labor-intensive — contains no creative spark and therefore fails the originality test for copyright.
Incorrect. Common techniques (rhyme schemes, chord progressions) do not defeat originality as long as the specific expression reflects a minimal creative spark. The alphabetical directory in Feist specifically failed originality because it involved no creative arrangement choices.
2. The Gordon Lish / Raymond Carver editorial relationship is cited to support which specific argument?
Correct. The example frames editing as the act of creative vision — which is exactly what working with AI-generated material requires.
Review "Editing as Primary Creative Work" in Lesson 3.
3. What does pre-infringement copyright registration enable that registration after infringement does not?
Correct. Statutory damages — up to $150,000 per work for willful infringement — are only available when the copyright was registered before the infringement occurred. They don't require proving financial harm, making them a far more powerful enforcement tool than actual damages.
The key advantage of pre-infringement registration is statutory damages. Without it, you're limited to actual damages, which are hard to prove and often small. The $150,000-per-work maximum for willful infringement is a significant deterrent.
4. Holly Herndon's position distinguished her AI work from the kind Cave criticized because:
Correct. Herndon's argument was that her embedded human judgment shaped the outputs — which is the criterion that distinguishes authorship from generation.
Review Lesson 1, Opening Scene. Herndon's point was about the nature of her creative involvement.
5. Engineering hiring managers at companies including Shopify and Figma in 2023 described the best practice for AI attribution as:
Correct. Specific, transparent attribution framed as professional judgment — not a disclaimer — is the emerging standard. Hiding AI assistance and being discovered causes far greater trust loss.
Vague disclaimers or hiding AI use both underperform. The standard is specific, transparent attribution: what tool, what it contributed, what you decided.
6. In the Build Loop, what happens in the "Refine" step when you send an error back to AI?
Correct. The explanation request is crucial — "fix it and explain what you changed" keeps you in the loop and maintains your understanding of the code.
The Refine step is targeted: send the specific error with context, and always ask for an explanation of what changed — to maintain your understanding.
7. What is the primary reason a vague prompt produces generic output?
Correct. Pattern completion with minimal constraints produces maximum-average, minimum-specific output.
Not quite. AI models don't penalize or randomly select — they produce the most statistically likely continuation, which is generically average when given little specificity.
8. Which iteration move should you use when an output was on track but too shallow — it got the right idea but didn't go deep enough?
Correct. Expand is the move when direction is right but depth is insufficient — "go deeper on point three" is more efficient than rewriting from scratch.
Not quite. When the output is directionally correct but shallow, the move is Expand — targeted deepening of the right element, not narrowing, redirecting, or restarting.
9. Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) policy on AI-generated books requires:
Correct. KDP requires flagging AI-generated content but does not prohibit it — representing a disclosure-not-prohibition approach that several major platforms have adopted as their pragmatic middle ground.
KDP's approach is disclosure-based: they require the content be identified as AI-generated, but they permit it on the platform. This is distinct from platforms that ban AI content entirely.
10. Under the "selection and arrangement" copyright doctrine, what can a creator protect?
Correct. Selection and arrangement protects the original creative choices in organizing and combining elements — this is how Kashtanova retained copyright in her comic's layout even when individual images were not protected.
Selection and arrangement is about the human creative choices in organizing content — not about the individual elements themselves, which may or may not be independently protected.
11. The U.S. Copyright Office ruled that AI-generated images in Zarya of the Dawn were not protected because:
Correct. Human authorship is a foundational requirement for copyright protection. AI-generated content alone does not meet this standard.
Incorrect. The ruling was about the human authorship requirement — a legal standard, not an aesthetic judgment.
12. The idea-expression dichotomy means:
Correct. Ideas are free for anyone to use. Only the specific expression of those ideas — the actual words, notes, or images — receives copyright protection.
Incorrect. Ideas themselves are never copyrightable. Only the specific fixed expression of an idea is protected.
13. According to Lesson 3, which situation does NOT require a single-responsibility override?
Correct. Naming conventions are style choices, not architectural violations. The override triggers are: boundary violations, unauthorized dependencies, and incomprehensible code.
The three override triggers are architectural: boundary violations, unauthorized dependencies, and code you cannot explain. Style differences are a matter of preference, not override necessity.
14. According to Anthropic's publicly released prompt library, which five-component pattern was used in their Meeting Summarizer template?
Correct. The Anthropic template used all five — role (expert meeting analyst), task (extract decisions/actions), context (transcript purpose), format (structured bullets), constraint (exclude small talk).
Not quite. The Anthropic Meeting Summarizer template documented use of all five components, which is why it became their recommended starting structure for new developers.
15. The module argues that genuine originality becomes more valuable in the AI age because:
Correct. Scarcity drives value. When competent imitation becomes trivially easy for everyone, the things AI cannot readily provide — genuine perspective, authentic creative judgment, meaningful voice — become comparatively scarcer and more valuable.
Incorrect. The argument is not about legal protection, AI quality limits, or future regulations. It is about the economics of scarcity: when imitation becomes easy, authentic originality becomes rarer and more valuable by contrast.
16. The "Heart on My Sleeve" AI-generated Drake/Weeknd track raised which primary ethical concern beyond its legal status?
Correct. Beyond legal questions, the ethical issue was identity appropriation — using real artists' recognizable voices and personas to create content they would never have made, without any consent, transparency, or benefit to them.
Incorrect. The core ethical concern was identity appropriation — creating content under real artists' sonic identities without consent. This goes beyond disclosure of tools or commercial status.
17. Which of the four portfolio project categories described in Lesson 1 was illustrated by journalists at The Markup using AI-assisted parsers to analyze court records?
Correct. Data Transformation — converting messy input (court records) into structured, analyzable output — was the Markup's approach, documented as public portfolio work in 2022.
The Markup example illustrates Data Transformation: taking messy court record data and converting it into structured, analyzable form.
18. The four presentation artifacts every portfolio piece needs are:
The four artifacts from Lesson 4 are: README, Demo, Narrative, and Design Doc — each serving a different audience and moment.
19. "Style is not copyrightable" means that:
Correct. Style, genre, technique, and aesthetic approach are in the public domain. Only specific fixed expressions — the actual text, melody, or image — receive copyright protection.
Incorrect. Style not being copyrightable means the general approach is free to use, but it does not mean all uses of a living artist's identity or all copying of their specific works is permitted. It is a nuanced distinction.
20. Artist Greg Rutkowski's documented concern about AI generators was primarily about:
Correct. Rutkowski documented that AI imitations of his style were flooding search results and attention, making him harder to find and competing with his actual work for commissions and visibility.
Incorrect. Style is not copyrightable, so exact reproduction claims are different. Rutkowski's concern was the economic and visibility harm from style replication at scale, not specific work copying or name commercialization.