The US Copyright Office has once again an effort to copyright a work of art that was created by an . Dr. Stephen Thaler attempted to copyright a piece of art titled A Recent Entrance to Paradise, claiming in a second request for reconsideration of a 2019 ruling that the USCO’s “human authorship” requirement was unconstitutional.
In its latest ruling, which was spotted by , the agency accepted that the work was created by an AI, which Thaler calls the Creativity Machine. Thaler applied to register the work as “as a work-for-hire to the owner of the Creativity Machine.”
However, the office said that current copyright law only offers protections to “the fruits of intellectual labor” that “are founded in the creative powers of the [human] mind.” As such, a copyrighted work “must be created by a human being” and the office says it won’t register works “produced by a…
