A recent entrance into the realities of copyright law
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In the ongoing war of humans v. artificial intelligence, the latter took a hit by the U.S. Copyright Office this week, which filed court documents saying it believes art created by AI cannot be protected by copyright.
“Precedent confirms the human-authorship requirement,” the government agency says in a filing with an appeals court in Washington D.C. — the latest proceeding over whether an AI-generated work of art called “A Recent Entrance To Paradise” can be protected. A lower court ruled in favor of the U.S. Copyright Office, which has refused to issue copyrights to materials not created by humans.
“Since the Nineteenth Century, the Supreme Court has recognized human creativity as the touchstone of authorship. Other circuit courts have rejected efforts to claim copyright in works allegedly authored by nonhumans. And the Copyright Office, in turn, has consistently stated its agreement with these views,” the document states.
