U.S. District Court Judge Beryl A. Howell ruled that art created by AI cannot be copyrighted. The ruling came in response to a lawsuit filed by Stephen Thaler, who sought to copyright an image created by the Creativity Machine algorithm.
Steven Thaler has repeatedly attempted to register the copyright for an image created by the Creativity Machine algorithm he developed. Thaler wanted to register the image as a custom work, with the algorithm as the author and Thaler himself as the owner of the work. However, his application was rejected.
the U.S. Copyright Office (USCO), arguing hungary whatsapp resource that the waiver was unlawful. However, Judge Howell disagreed, writing in her decision that copyright had never been granted to works created without human intervention, emphasizing that "human authorship is the fundamental principle of copyright."
However, the judge acknowledged that humanity is on the verge of a new frontier in copyright law, where artists will use AI as a tool to create new works. She noted that this will create difficulties in determining the degree of human involvement in their creation that is required to register the works as copyrights.
Thaler's attorney, Ryan Abbot of Brown Neri Smith & Khan LLP, said they disagree with the judge's interpretation of the law and plan to appeal the decision.
There has been a recent surge in lawsuits in the US involving copyright and AI, with Sarah Silverman and others filinglawsuitagainst OpenAI for illegally using their work in AI training. Anotherlawsuit, filed by programmer and lawyer Matthew Butterick against Microsoft, GitHub and OpenAI, alleges that using copyrighted software code to train AI is piracy.
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