First, if the work is deemed a work made for hire, the author and owner is the employer (or hiring party), and the creator (i.e., employee or independent contractor) has no exclusive rights in the ...

From Thaler v. Perlmutter, decided Friday by Judge Beryl Howell (D.D.C.): Plaintiff Stephen Thaler owns a computer system he calls the "Creativity ...

November 28, 2023 - ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence ("AI") programs, like the image-generating Midjourney, have accelerated conversations around generative AI, raising important public ...

On 27 May 2020, Mr. Thaler filed a second request for reconsideration arguing that granting copyright registration for AI-generated works would “further the underlying goals of copyright law ...

The good news is that in the US, works created solely by an AI are not entitled to copyright protection. For now, humans must find consolation in the DC Circuit’s determination that all copyrightable ...

While Shaun Gray, a cousin of 'Maverick' screenwriter Eric Warren Singer, was denied a court order that he's a co-author of ...

Thaler's application "explained the work had been 'autonomously created by a computer algorithm running on a machine,' but that plaintiff sought to claim the copyright of the 'computer-generated ...

Shyamkrishna Balganesh, a Columbia University law professor specializing in intellectual property and copyright law, explained that the ruling was “fully expected” given the precedents set by ...

The copyright office requires applicants to disclose the parts of their work created by AI. Amid this backdrop, courts are wrestling with the legality of using copyrighted works to train AI systems.

The USCO currently interprets copyright law in the U.S. to not afford protections to works created by generative AI that have no human involvement.