India's DABUS copyright test may not work for everyday AI users
By Freny Patel ( September 8, 2026, 03:48 GMT | Comment) -- India’s Copyright Office identified the human author for artwork generated by Stephen Thaler's DABUS-artificial intelligence system, but doing so for outputs produced through commercial generative-AI tools may prove harder. The ruling offers a route to copyright when a person controls the inputs and creative process, but less certainty when human involvement is limited to prompting, selecting or editing.India’s ruling on an artwork generated by Stephen Thaler’s DABUS artificial-intelligence system offers a workable route to copyright because Thaler’s unusually extensive involvement made him relatively easy to identify as the person behind the work. But it leaves businesses using third-party generative-AI tools without a clear answer to the commercially important question: When do prompting, selection and editing amount to authorship?...
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