AI Generated Work Deserves Copyright, Creator Tells DC Circuit

There is nothing in copyright law barring protection for artificial intelligence-generated art, and the creator and user of an AI that produced a work clearly owns that right, a computer scientist told the DC Circuit.

A lower court erroneously found Stephen Thaler’s work ineligible for copyright protection because it was “autonomously created,” he said in a brief to the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit Monday. But Thaler’s creation of the Creativity Machine provides him “multiple legal bases to be the rightshoolder” of a work that clearly qualifies as a registrable creative work, he said.

“The word ‘autonomous’ ...