The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has affirmed a district court ruling that human authorship is a bedrock requirement to register a copyright, and that an artificial intelligence system cannot be deemed the...more
3/21/2025
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The United States Copyright Office (USCO) has released its report on the copyrightability of outputs generated by artificial intelligence (AI) systems (the Report). This is the second of three reports the USCO plans to...more
Copyright Office Rejects Application for AI-Generated Work Based on a Photograph --
On December 11, 2023, the Review Board of the United States Copyright Office (Board) rejected a Second Request for reconsideration with...more
Copyright Office Rejects Application for Refusal To Disclaim AI-Generated Elements -
The U.S. Copyright Office has once again refused to register a visual work that included elements generated using artificial intelligence...more
9/15/2023
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On August 18, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted summary judgment in favor of the Copyright Office in Thaler v. Perlmutter, 1 holding that the office did not act arbitrarily or capriciously or...more
Copyright Office Provides Guidance on the Registration of Works That Include AI-Generated Material -
During a June 2023 webinar, representatives of the Copyright Office provided much needed clarification and guidance on...more
8/3/2023
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The expanding use of artificial intelligence (AI) programs to create content has, not surprisingly, resulted in attempts to register copyrights in AI-generated works. The Copyright Office has formally rejected two such...more