Sorry A.I., No Copyrights for You
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit waded into the question of whether software or A.I. can qualify as an author for copyright purposes. In Thaler v. Perlmutter, a unanimous panel concluded that such non-human entities cannot be authors.
Judge Millett wrote for the panel, joined by Judge Wilkins and Senior Judge Rogers. Here is her summary of the case and decision:
This case presents a question made salient by recent advances in artificial intelligence: Can a non-human machine be an author under the Copyright Act of 1976? The use of artificial intelligence to produce original work is rapidly increasing across industries and creative field
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