News & Analysis as of

Artificial Intelligence Algorithms Copyright Office

Miller Nash LLP

When Man Beats Machine: The Latest in Artificial Intelligence and Copyright

Miller Nash LLP on

Summer must be coming, because the courts are starting to heat up with copyright decisions in artificial intelligence (AI) cases. We’ve previously written here, here, and here about Dr. Stephen Thaler’s attempts to register...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

AI and Copyright: What a Recent Court Ruling Means for AI Creators and Intellectual Property Rights

Fox Rothschild LLP on

In a significant decision, the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit recently ruled that the Copyright Act of 1976 requires human authorship to register a work, affirming the district court’s denial of a...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

DC Circuit Weighs in On Human Authorship

Womble Bond Dickinson on

The DC Circuit has reaffirmed and reinforced longstanding Copyright Office policy that only humans can be authors....more

Baker Botts L.L.P.

AI Legal Watch: March 27, 2025

Baker Botts L.L.P. on

The recent decision in Thaler v. Perlmutter et al., No. 23-5233 (D.C. Cir. 2025) offers continued guidance on whether “authorship” can be attributed to AI systems (i.e., non-humans) under Copyright Law. The D.C. Circuit...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Making Your Mark

What a Piece of Work is a Man [made piece of art] Non-humans (Still) Can’t be Authors Under the Copyright Act

Last week, the D.C. Circuit upheld the Copyright Office’s refusal to register the copyright in this image, which was created entirely by AI. This is consistent with longstanding precedent (in the US, at least) that only...more

Mintz - Antitrust Viewpoints

DC Circuit Court Rules AI Cannot be Author of Copyrighted Work, and NIST Finalizes AI Report — AI: The Washington Report

On March 18, the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit ruled that an AI model cannot be the author of copyrighted material under existing copyright law. The court affirmed the US Copyright Office’s long-standing human...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

Is (Copyright) Paradise Lost for A Recent Entrance to Paradise and Other AI-Generated Works?

Last week, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals issued its opinion in Thaler v. Perlmutter. The opinion notably solidifies the U.S. Copyright Office’s position that works generated autonomously (and thus solely) by artificial...more

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC

D.C. Circuit Affirms Denial of Copyright Protection for AI-Generated Works

On March 18, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (the “D.C. Circuit”) ruled in Thaler v. Perlmutter, affirming that works created solely by artificial intelligence (“AI”) cannot be...more

Mintz - Antitrust Viewpoints

Federal Agencies Take Action on AI One Year After AI Executive Order — AI: The Washington Report

President Biden’s Executive Order on AI (AI EO), issued on October 30, 2023, directed various agencies to take certain actions within one year of the AI EO’s issuance. On October 24, 2024, the White House announced that...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

All Eyes on AI: Regulatory, Litigation, and Transactional Developments – Q2 2024

The firm is pleased to distribute the Q2 2024 edition of All Eyes on AI: Regulatory, Litigation, and Transactional Developments, which closely follows the evolving regulatory landscape for artificial intelligence (AI) in the...more

Jones Day

AI and Deepfakes: U.S. Copyright Office Urges Federal Digital Replica Law

Jones Day on

The Situation: In early 2023, the U.S. Copyright Office ("Office") launched a new initiative to examine the intersection of copyright law and artificial intelligence ("AI"). Later that year, the Office issued Registration...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Tailoring Compliance Before AI Walks The Runway

Foley & Lardner LLP on

Generative AI tools such as DALL-E 2, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion are increasingly being used to produce static 2D images, and technology from companies like Runway AI Inc., which recently hosted its second annual AI Film...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Longshot Legislation Reflects Interest in AI Regulation

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on

In the wake of several Congressional hearings over the past year on AI and intellectual property, Representative Adam Schiff (D-California) has introduced the Generative AI Copyright Disclosure Act of 2024 (H.R. 7913).  ...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Copyright Office Affirms Refusal of AI Authorship

Ballard Spahr LLP on

Summary - The Copyright Office Review Board (Board) has affirmed the Copyright Office’s refusal of a work created with the use of artificial intelligence (AI) software....more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

What Do Michael Jordan and Sarah Silverman Have in Common? The End of AI as We Know It (According to the Makers of ChatGPT)

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on

The latest briefing in Silverman v. OpenAI reads like that old REM song, “The End of the World as We Know It.” OpenAI has responded to the Plaintiffs’ claims that OpenAI’s popular platform ChatGPT has infringed their...more

The Rodman Law Group, LLC

Risks that AI Developers Must Consider When Developing AI

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not just a technological innovation; it’s a transformative force that has permeated multiple sectors, from healthcare to finance. As AI startups and companies creating AI tools (“AI...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Tragic Ending: Award-Winning AI Artwork Refused Copyright Registration

McDermott Will & Emery on

The US Copyright Office (CO) Review Board rejected a request to register artwork partially generated by artificial intelligence (AI) because the work contains more than a de minimis amount of content generated by AI and the...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Recent Developments Related to Generative AI and Copyright Law

McDermott Will & Emery on

The increasing sophistication of generative artificial intelligence (AI) has had widespread effects on fields ranging from art and film to law and healthcare. The implications for copyright law principles, such as authorship,...more

White & Case LLP

Edition 4 of the AI Legal News Summer Roundup

White & Case LLP on

In this edition, key themes include creators and consumers seeking more control and protection over how their content is used to train AI models (whether under copyright law or privacy laws), and governments grappling with...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

District Court Rules that AI-Generated Works Cannot Be Copyrighted

The D.C. district court recently affirmed the U.S. Copyright Office’s position that a work generated entirely by artificial intelligence (AI) technology is not eligible for copyright protection. The case is Stephen Thaler v....more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Generative AI Cannot Meet Authorship Requirement for Copyright Protection, District Court Rules

A recent decision by Judge Beryl Howell in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia (“D.C. District Court”) affirmed that human authorship is required for copyright registration. In granting the United...more

Fenwick & West LLP

AI Update - Q1 2023

Fenwick & West LLP on

A recent experiment from researchers at Stanford University’s Polarization and Social Change Lab and the Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence found that AI-generated messages intended to persuade human readers...more

Lathrop GPM

Can You Copyright AI-Generated Content?

Lathrop GPM on

A great deal of news and public discussion has been fixated on the increasing popularity of generative AI — a category of artificial intelligence algorithms that can generate content (textual, visual, or audio) by “training”...more

Weintraub Tobin

Should AI Machines Have Rights?

Weintraub Tobin on

In the last few years, the U.S. Copyright Office refused to allow a copyright registration for a work of art created by a machine, and a federal district court held that an artificial intelligence system could not be an...more

Weintraub Tobin

Is Machine-Made Art Copyrightable?

Weintraub Tobin on

The United States Copyright Office has refused to register a copyright for a work of art created by a machine. The work of art is a two-dimensional picture that is mostly dark and sort of looks like a painting. ...more

25 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 1

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide