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Copyright Office Issues Key Guidance on Fair Use in Generative AI Training

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On May 9, 2025, the U.S. Copyright Office (the Office) released the third and final report in its “Copyright and Artificial Intelligence” series, offering its most comprehensive guidance to date on one of the most contested...more

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HK Releases Guideline Concerning Generative AI

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On 15 April 2025, the Hong Kong Government’s Digital Policy Office published the Hong Kong Generative Artificial Intelligence Technical and Application Guideline (“Guideline”), which aims to provide operational guidance for...more

Kaufman & Canoles

AI and Copyrights

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Hours before the Register of Copyrights, Shira Perlmutter, was unceremoniously fired, the U.S. Copyright Office published long-awaited guidance on the use of copyrighted content for training artificial intelligence (AI)....more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Copyright Office Report on Training AI and Fair Use

The Copyright Office released a “Pre-publication” version of Part 3 of its Report on Copyright and AI. Coincidentally (?) Shira Perlmuter, the Register of Copyrights, was fired amid a shakeup at the Copyright Office. The...more

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AI Reporter - September 2024

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There has been a seismic shift in the relationship between Big Tech’s AI power couple, Microsoft and OpenAI. The former listed the AI pioneer as a competitor in its annual report, perhaps signaling a less friendly dynamic...more

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The U.S. Copyright Office’s Position on the Copyrightability of Works Made with the Assistance of Generative AI (Part Two)

The Guidance states that the Copyright Office’s long-standing position is that human authorship is required for a work to be copyrightable and eligible for registration. Nevertheless, the Guidance provides that works created...more

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The U.S. Copyright Office’s Position on the Copyrightability of Works Made with the Assistance of Generative AI (Part One)

Since the release and popularization of platforms such as Midjourney and DALL-E, the past few years have seen a staggering proliferation of art made using text-to-image models—familiarly known as “AI art.” Tens of millions of...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

USPTO Guidance on Use of AI-Based Tools

The USPTO has issued several recent Federal Register Notices this calendar year. The latest, entitled Guidance on Use of Artificial Intelligence-Based Tools in Practice Before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, 89...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

AI News Roundup – IP Protection hearing, USPTO AI Guidelines, potential data center for AI computing and more

To help you stay on top of the latest news, our AI practice group has compiled a roundup of the developments we are following. Last week, the US House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Appreciable or de Minimis: That Is the AI Question

As AI-generated materials are becoming more commonplace in creative works across the media landscape, content creators and distributors are seeking guidance on what information needs to be disclosed to the United States...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Generative AI and Copyright – Some Recent Denials and Unanswered Questions

The growth of artificial intelligence (“AI”) and generative AI is moving copyright law into unprecedented territory. While US copyright law continues to develop around AI, one boundary has been set: the bedrock requirement of...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Resource Guide for the Copyright Office Artificial Intelligence Initiative

Using generative AI raises numerous copyright issues. In response, the US Copyright Office (USCO) has undertaken a new Artificial Intelligence Initiative (“AI Initiative”). This guide is a high level overview and a collection...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

What Does It Mean to be Human: Copyright Office Confirms That AI-Generated Works Are Not Works of Human Authorship

The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia recently found that human prompting of AI-generated works does not satisfy the “authorship” requirement for copyright protection. Under the Copyright Act of 1976, copyright...more

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“Robo Rules” – U.S. Copyright Office Publishes Guidance on Works Containing Artificial Intelligence

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The U.S. Copyright Office has published copyright registration guidance on works containing material generated by artificial intelligence technology. The statement of policy clarifies its practices for examining and...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Copyright office issues new guidance on AI-assisted works, but legal concerns linger

Artificial intelligence (AI) has dominated the headlines over the last several years. As technology has continued to advance, computers and robots have progressed from merely assisting human beings with common tasks to making...more

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AD-ttorneys@law - April 2023

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U.S. Copyright Office Keeps AI Out in the Cold - Only humans can copyright, Office says - Daisy, Daisy, Give Me Your Answer True - The Copyright Office has weighed in with long-anticipated statement of policy...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

The Copyright Office Issues Guidance Regarding Works Produced by Generative AI

On March 16, the Copyright Office published guidance in the Federal Register relating to works produced at least in part by generative artificial intelligence (AI).  This is the latest in a series of policy decisions and...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

AI Researcher Prompts Unexpected Output in Federal Court: Copyright Policy

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In 2018, the U.S. Copyright Office denied the registration of a 2-D work of art “A Recent Entrance into Paradise” generated by artificial intelligence (“AI”). The programmer behind the AI, Dr. Stephen Thaler, sued the...more

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The Briefing by the IP Law Blog: Copyright Office Issues Guidance for Works Containing Material Generated by AI

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The US Copyright Office issued a policy statement regarding the registration of works that contain material generated by AI technology. Scott Hervey and Josh Escovedo talk about this clarification on this episode of The...more

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U.S. Copyright Office Cancels Registration for AI-Generated Art, Issues AI-Related Registration Guidance

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The United States Copyright Office, like other government agencies and private-sector entities, is reckoning with the implications of artificial intelligence. In February, the Office canceled an artist’s copyright...more

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U.S. Copyright Office Launches New Artificial Intelligence Initiative

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The U.S. Copyright Office published new guidance on the registration of works containing artificial intelligence ("AI")-generated material and announced public roundtables on the intersection of AI and copyright....more

McDermott Will & Emery

Not Today, HAL: Copyright Still Requires Human Input

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The US Copyright Office (USCO) issued a policy statement on March 16, 2023, clarifying its position on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in copyrighted materials. This statement came in the wake of the USCO’s recent...more

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Breaking Dawn: Understanding the Copyright Office’s Policy on Works Containing AI-Generated Materials

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Background on Kashtanova’s Comic Book - Digital artist Kris Kashtanova registered Zarya of the Dawn, a comic book with dazzling and dystopian imagery generated via Midjourney’s text-to-image AI model, with the U.S. Copyright...more

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Copyright Office Stakes Out Position on Registration of AI-Generated Works

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There have been two important developments in recent weeks regarding the U.S. Copyright Office’s position on registering works created by the use of artificial intelligence (AI) technology. First, on February 21, 2023, the...more

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To AI or Not to AI: U.S. Copyright Office Clarifies Options

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The U.S. Copyright Office has weighed in with formal guidance on the copyrightability of works whose generation included the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools. The good news for technology-oriented human creative...more

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