‘US Copyright Office refuses to register AI-generated work, finding that “human authorship is a prerequisite to copyright protection”’

“Can a work entirely created by a machine be protected by copyright? On Valentine’s Day, the US Copyright Office (Review Board) answered this question with a heartbreaking ‘no’, holding that ‘copyright law only protects “the fruits of intellectual labor” that “are founded in the creative powers of the [human] mind”’ and consequently refusing to register the two-dimensional artwork A Recent Entrance to Paradise below (the ‘Work’) …” (more)

[Eleonora Rosati, The IPKat, 17 February]

First posted 2022-02-18 19:00:57

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