The USCO currently interprets copyright law in the U.S. to not afford protections to works created by generative AI that have no human involvement. This interpretation of the law by the Copyright Office was affirmed by Judge Beryl Howell of the United States Federal District Court for the District of Columbia.
Whose content is it anyway? This is one of the questions that many hope will be answered by a federal court in Thaler v. Perlmutter. In June 2022, computer scientist Dr. Stephen Thaler.
The startlingly fast developments in generative artificial intelligence technology over the last few years have caused numerous questions and issues to be raised about the protection.