> whereas the creation process should be immaterial to protection
On the contrary, the US position has been for a very, very, long time that the creation process is the only thing that's material to protection. The result is not the thing that matters.
Corporations can own copyright not because they're human beings, but because the copyrighted work was originally generated by a human being's creative expression. There's no contradiction or having it both ways here: this isn't a set of guidance about who can own copyright, it's a set of guidance about what can generate copyright.
On the contrary, the US position has been for a very, very, long time that the creation process is the only thing that's material to protection. The result is not the thing that matters.
Corporations can own copyright not because they're human beings, but because the copyrighted work was originally generated by a human being's creative expression. There's no contradiction or having it both ways here: this isn't a set of guidance about who can own copyright, it's a set of guidance about what can generate copyright.