United States of America: US Copyright review board rejects request of recognition of artwork authorship by artificial intelligence system
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US Copyright review board rejects request of recognition of artwork authorship by artificial intelligence system
On 14 February 2022, the Review Board of the US Copyright Office rejected a request to review its denial to register a two-dimensional artwork, generated by an artificial intelligence (AI) system, called "A Recent Entrance to Paradise". The Board confirms the Registration Program's refusal of registration with referral to previous jurisdiction jurisprudence, according to which it will not register works “produced by a machine or mere mechanical process” that operates “without any creative input or intervention from a human author”. The Office thus confirms that in order for copyright protection, “a work must be created by a human being”.
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Policy Area
Intellectual property
Policy Instrument
Patent protection regulation
Regulated Economic Activity
ML and AI development
Implementation Level
national
Government Branch
executive
Government Body
other regulatory body
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2019-08-12
under investigation
2020-03-30
under investigation
2021-09-02
under investigation
2022-02-14
in force
2022-08-05
in force
2023-04-24
in force