At the other extreme, if content is entirely generated by A.I., it cannot be protected by copyright,” a new report from the office reads ( via Artnet). “Between these boundaries, various forms and combinations of human contributions can be involved in producing A.

The generative AI boom has raised complex, multibillion-dollar legal questions that courts across the country are in the early stages of trying to address. A new report from the U.S. Copyright Office might help with at least one of them.

Artwork generated by artificial intelligence must have a human contributor to earn copyright protection in the United States, the U.S. Copyright Office has determined.

New guidance from the US Copyright Office says AI images and the prompts used to create them are not copyrightable.

The new guidelines say that AI prompts currently don’t offer enough control to “make users of an AI system the authors of the output.” (AI systems themselves can’t hold co

The report by the office could help allow the use of AI tools in films, music, books, and other creative fields.