No Right to Copyright for AI
The owner of an artificial intelligence filed a suit against the United States Copyright Office for denying his application for a piece of visual art created by the AI. This case has recently been appealed and will be a landmark decision regarding the rights of AI and their owners to the work that is created by AI.
AI and Copyright: Can Art Created by Generative AI Qualify for Copyright Protection?
Computer Scientist Stephen Thaler aspires to expand the definition of authorship in the copyright registration context. If his appeal is dismissed, this will affirm that AI generated works of art do not satisfy the requirement of traditional-human authorship in an application for copyright protection.