JD Supra Law
AUGUST 31, 2023
Digital artwork created by an AI system has once again been denied U.S. copyright registration. Perlmutter granted summary judgment to the Copyright Office and Shira Perlmutter, Register of Copyrights and Director of the Office, and upheld the Copyright Office’s longstanding position that U.S.
IP and Legal Filings
MARCH 30, 2024
In addition, concerns have been raised regarding the authenticity and possession of the artwork, the involvement of the artist, and the authorship and ownership of its copyright in relation to the integration of artificial intelligence into the artistic process.
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IP and Legal Filings
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
AI generated art is made autonomously by artificial intelligence without human creative input (see below for the artwork Dall-E 2 created in response to my suggestion “a machine painting a canvas”). Under the Indian Copyright Act , such works are classified as “computer generated works”. The basis for registration is not specified.
SpicyIP
OCTOBER 9, 2022
Such works qualify as ‘computer generated works’ under the Indian Copyright Act. For such works, copyright law confers authorship to the “person who causes the work to be created”. As reported, in 2020, the copyright office rejected an application which listed AI (RAGHAV) as the sole author for an artwork.
Above the Fold
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
On February 14, 2022, the Review Board of the United States Copyright Office issued an opinion letter denying a claimant’s second request for reconsideration to register an Artificial Intelligence artwork piece titled “A Recent Entrance to Paradise” (“Work”).
LexBlog IP
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
On February 14, 2022, the Review Board of the United States Copyright Office issued an opinion letter denying a claimant’s second request for reconsideration to register an Artificial Intelligence artwork piece titled “A Recent Entrance to Paradise” (“Work”).
LexBlog IP
DECEMBER 21, 2023
On December 11, 2023, the Copyright Review Board affirmed the Copyright Office’s decision to reject Ankit Sahni’s application to register the AI-generated work depicted above. In effect, Sanhi was attempting to register the artwork as a derivative of his photograph. At *4 (“By its plain text, the 1976 Act.
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