The decision was made in a lawsuit filed against the US Copyright Office after Steven Thaler denied copyright to an image created using the Creativity Machine algorithm.
Thaler repeatedly tried to save the image, claiming it was “commissioned work” for the owner of the Creativity Machine.
However, their application was rejected. In his decision, the judge emphasized that copyright is never given to non-human works, and said that “the basis of copyright is human authorship.”
The judge also noted that in the future, artists will use AI as a tool to create new works, which will raise “hard questions about how much human input is needed” for copyright AI-generated art.
Thaler plans to appeal the court’s decision.
Source: Ferra
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