USCO

In a webinar this week, the United States Copyright Office (USCO) firmly re-stated its position on artificial intelligence (AI) by stating that it will not register works solely created by AI. This stance aligns AI-generated content with other unclaimable materials, such as previously published or registered works, public domain content, and copyrighted material owned by other parties.

Robert Kasunic of the USCO emphasized that “Human authorship is a precondition to copyrightability,” reiterating the Office’s standpoint. This reaffirms the guidance issued in March, which likened text prompts to instructions given to commissioned artists, drawing parallels to a magazine editor hiring a photographer.