Judge disses Star Trek icon Data’s poetry while ruling AI can’t author works
A computer scientist who tried to register an artwork that credited an artificial intelligence system as the sole author lost his appeal on Tuesday.
A three-judge panel for the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit unanimously agreed with the Copyright Office that Stephen Thaler’s AI software cannot be granted authorship. Copyright law “requires all work to be authored in the first instance by a human being,” Judge Patricia Millett wrote in her opinion.
“Because many of the Copyright Act’s provisions make sense only if an author is a human being, the best reading of the Copyright Act is that human authorship is required for registration,” Millett wrote.
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