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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
In February 2025, the U.S. Copyright Office released a report titled “Identifying the Economic Implications of Artificial Intelligence for Copyright Policy.” Edited by Brent Lutes, the Office’s chief economist, the volume...more
Does copyright law require that a human create a work? Yesterday the D.C. Circuit in Thaler v. Perlmutter held that it does and that a machine (such as a computer operating a generative AI program) cannot be designated as the...more
On September 19, 2024, the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit heard arguments in the matter of Thaler v. Perlmutter on the question of whether an image “autonomously” generated by artificial intelligence can be...more
Delve into the new WGA and SAG contract provisions relating to AI. Scott Hervey and Jamie Lincenberg tackle the terms and changes in this installment of "The Briefing" by Weintraub Tobin....more
In a relatively scathing opinion finding the plaintiffs’ Complaint “defective in numerous respects,” a district court judge has thrown out most of the claims a group of artists has asserted against AI platforms that allegedly...more
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
In the latest skirmish between Sarah Silverman and other authors against Chat GPT-maker OpenAI, OpenAI submitted a new decision from a California federal court in support of its attempt to dismiss the Silverman plaintiffs’...more
As discussed in my previous article, recent guidance from the Copyright Office and subsequent judicial opinions supporting the Office’s position have made it clear that purely AI-generated works are not protectable by...more
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
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
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
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
Summary - The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia upheld last week, in a first-of-its-kind case, the U.S. Copyright Office's denial of an application to register an image purportedly generated entirely...more
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
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