Daphne Higgs, Aaron Rubin, Tessa Schwartz and Heather Whitney authored an article for Law360 discussing the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia decision in the case of Thaler v. Perlmutter. The court recently affirmed the U.S. Copyright Office's position that a work generated entirely by artificial intelligence technology is not eligible for copyright protection.
The authors noted that, "the decision does leave open the question of how much human input is necessary to qualify the user of an AI system as the author of a generated work — a question the Copyright Office solicited public feedback on in a notice published in the Federal Register on Aug. 30."
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