‘A single piece of US copyright: Are AI-generated images original artistic works or banal compilations?’

On 30 January 2025, the US Copyright Office (USCO) registered A Single Piece of American Cheese, a visual material generated by Invoke AI and with a technique called ‘inpainting’. Initially rejected in September 2024, the application was reconsidered after the applicant argued that the work involved sufficient human creativity. The USCO ultimately agreed and registered the work on the basis of the ‘selection, coordination, and arrangement of material generated by artificial intelligence’ …” (more)

[Söğüt Atilla, The IPKat, 18 February 2025]

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