Human Elements Needed to Protect AI Works, Copyright Office Says

Content made with AI is eligible for copyright protection when it contains sufficient human-authored expressive elements, according to a report released Wednesday by the US Copyright Office.

“The use of AI tools to assist rather than stand in for human creativity does not affect the availability of copyright protection for the output,” the report said, while also reaffirming the office’s position that copyright protection doesn’t extend to purely AI-generated material. The office further stressed that whether human contributions to AI-generated outputs are sufficient to constitute authorship must be analyzed on a case-by-case basis, and that existing law is adequate to ...