AI art malfunctions

 

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Copyright protection plea for AI art malfunctions in federal court again

 

 

 

 

·         Off Beat

• Mar 20, 2025

A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday affirmed that a work of art generated by artificial intelligence without human input could not be copyrighted under U.S. law, agreeing with previous rulings that machines can’t own things.

As documented in the latest decision, Stephen Thaler created a generative AI named the “Creativity Machine.” The Creativity Machine made a picture that he titled “A Recent Entrance to Paradise.” Mr. Thaler submitted a copyright registration application to the United States Copyright Office, listing the Creativity Machine as the work’s sole author and himself as just the work’s owner.

The Copyright Office denied the application based on its established human-authorship requirement that works be authored in the first instance by a human being to be eligible for copyright registration. Mr. Thaler appealed to the courts.

 

A federal district court agreed with the Copyright Office, as did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, ruling that only works with human authors can be copyrighted.

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