AI denied copyright for its artwork
The US Copyright Office has denied a request to let an AI system, dubbed ‘Creativity Machine’, copyright a piece of artwork titled ‘ A Recent Entrance to Paradise.’ The board reviewed a 2019 ruling against Steven Thaler, the developer of the algorithm, and rejected the request based on the lack of ‘human authorship’ element in the AI-generated artwork. Steven Thaler had initially filed for a copyright on AI’s behalf in 2018. However, the US Copyright Office dismissed the petition saying the artwork was autonomously created by a computer algorithm running on a machine. The courts found non-human expression is ineligible for copyright protection. A Recent Entrance to Paradise is part of an anthology around “simulated near-death experiences” where an algorithm reprocesses pictures to create hallucinatory images and a narrative about the afterlife. Thaler filed a second copyright request on February 14 claiming the US Copyright Office’s human authorship requirement is unconstitutional. He said the office should allow copyrights to machine-generated works because doing so would “further the underlying goals of copyright law, including the constitutional rationale for copyright protection.”
Steven Thaler had initially filed for a copyright on AI’s behalf in 2018.
Steven Thaler had initially filed for a copyright on AI’s behalf in 2018.
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Sharath is an ardent believer in the ‘Transhumanism’ movement. Anything and everything about technology excites him. At Analytics India Magazine, he writes about artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and the impact these emerging technologies have on day-to-day human lives. When not working on a story, he spends his time reading tech novels and watching sci-fi movies and series.