Copyright Law Permits Nonhuman Authors, AI Creator Tells DC Cir.

The government’s position that artificial intelligence-produced work can’t have copyright protection ignores “fundamental truths” about the case, as nothing in the law dictates such works aren’t copyrightable, a computer scientist told the DC Circuit.

Stephen Thaler said the US Copyright Office is “straining the language” of the law when it argues his work can’t be copyrighted because its author isn’t human. Thaler’s provided several viable theories for the protection of such works, he said in his reply brief to the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

The reply concludes briefing and sets up oral argument in the ...