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Human authorship needed to copyright AI works, DC Circuit affirms

By Nick Robertson ( March 18, 2025, 19:54 GMT | Insight) -- Stephen Thaler’s attempt to register a copyright for artwork created by artificial intelligence failed at the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit today. The appellate panel affirmed a 2023 decision by a DC federal judge that copyrighted works require human authorship. The decision is the first at the appellate level over sole AI authorship for copyrights, and it aligns with policy already in place at the US Copyright Office.The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit affirmed today that artistic works require human authorship in order to receive copyright protection, upholding longstanding policy of the US Copyright Office in the first appellate-level review of a claim for sole AI-authorship of a creative work....

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