AI Disclosures Affirm Artists’ Validity, Copyright Director Says

The head of the US Copyright Office defended its guidance directing applicant registrations to disclaim use of AI in their work, arguing it will reduce future legal headaches for artists.

“Requiring this type of disclaimer was not to make applicants’ lives more difficult, or to require lawyers to be consulted,” Shira Perlmutter, the register of copyrights, said Thursday at the Vanderbilt University Music Law Summit in Nashville, Tenn.

The goal is to “avoid any later questioning of the validity of the registration,” she said.

The Copyright Office, an agency within the Library of Congress tasked with registering copyrighted works, issued ...