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Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Appellate Court Affirms Human Authorship Requirement for Copyrighting AI-Generated Works

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has affirmed a district court ruling that human authorship is a bedrock requirement to register a copyright, and that an artificial intelligence system cannot be deemed the...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

DC Circuit Affirms Decision That Copyright Statute Requires Some Amount of Human Authorship, Leaves More Difficult Questions for...

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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

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

What Makes an AI Generated Work “Original”?

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The emergence of generative artificial intelligence (AI) products in the past couple of years has significantly increased the capacity for individuals, businesses, and organisations to utilise AI to produce a wide range of...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Who Owns Creativity? — AI in Entertainment

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The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the film and television industry in content creation raises many legal and business issues. One key issue is the ownership of the works generated using AI and the ability to register...more

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Client Alert: Can Works Made with Generative AI be Copyrighted?

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In response to the increased use of sophisticated artificial intelligence (“AI”) technologies capable of producing expressive material, the U.S. Copyright Office (“CO”) published a two-part series on the copyrightability of...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Thomson Reuters v. Ross Intelligence: Copyright, Fair Use, and AI (Round One)

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Earlier this week, a federal judge rejected an AI startup's claim that using copyrighted material to train its AI system was permissible under the fair use doctrine. The decision—Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH v. Ross...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Court Issues First Decision on AI and Fair Use

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Recently, a federal court issued the first ruling on the closely watched issue of fair use in copyright infringement involving AI. The court ruled in favor of the plaintiff on its direct infringement claim, and ruled that the...more

Mayer Brown

Human Input Necessary for Copyrightability of Works Created with Artificial Intelligence

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Last week, the United States Copyright Office (“USCO”) released its long-anticipated report on the copyrightability of works created with the aid of artificial intelligence (“AI”). The report did not break new ground by...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

With Enough Human Contribution, AI-Generated Outputs May Be Copyright Protectable

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After several months of delays, the U.S. Copyright Office has published part two of its three-part report on the copyright issues raised by artificial intelligence (AI). This part, entitled “Copyrightability,” focuses on...more

Wiley Rein LLP

Generative AI in Focus: Copyright Office's Latest Report

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On January 29, 2025, the U.S. Copyright Office released its highly anticipated report (the Report) regarding the copyrightability of works created using generative artificial intelligence (AI). The Report concluded that...more

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