Intellectual Property,
Technology
Aug. 25, 2023
Generative AI systems may be creative but aren’t human enough to hold copyrights
District Court holds that copyright law is designed to adapt to the times but can’t be stretched to works generated with no human involvement.
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Generative Artificial Intelligence can recognize faces, predict and suggest words and phrases, turn drawings into photos and generate artwork. But a U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia held earlier this month that it can’t hold a copyright on any of those works. Thaler v. Perlmutter, 2023 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 145823, *11
The case involved a piece of art entitled A Recent Entrance ...
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