Human Authorship: How Much of Your Work Must Be Yours to Copyright It?
You used an AI tool. You also did real creative work — you chose, arranged, edited, refined. So where’s the line? How much of a piece has to come from you before the Copyright Office will call it yours? There’s no magic percentage, but there IS a workable answer, and it’s more encouraging than the headlines suggest. Here’s the human authorship threshold in plain English, plus a five-minute self-audit to protect the parts that count.