Court Rules AI Cannot Be Copyrighted: Landmark Ruling on Human Authorship

In a pivotal decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled that copyright protection requires human authorship, rejecting the idea that AI-generated works can be copyrighted. This decision represents a significant setback for efforts to grant intellectual property rights to creations made by artificial intelligence. The case centers around a visual artwork titled “A Recent Entrance to Paradise,” created by computer scientist Stephen Thaler’s AI program, "Creativity Machine." Click on the image for the full story.