AI Authorship Revisited.

This article presents a current state of generative artificial intelligence (genAI) outputs and copyright protection. The article details the United States Copyright Office’s statements and policies on human authorship and copyrightability in works involving genAI outputs. Stephen Thaler and Kris Ka...

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Publicado en:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 68; no. 7; pp. 26 - 29
Autor principal:	Samuelson, Pamela
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Association for Computing Machinery Jul2025
Materias:	Generative artificial intelligence Authorship Library of Congress. Copyright Office Actions & defenses (Law) Kashtanova, Kris Thaler, Stephen
Acceso en línea:	Ver este registro en EBSCOhost

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Sumario:	This article presents a current state of generative artificial intelligence (genAI) outputs and copyright protection. The article details the United States Copyright Office’s statements and policies on human authorship and copyrightability in works involving genAI outputs. Stephen Thaler and Kris Kashtanova and their interactions with the Copyright Office as well as relevant court cases are discussed. The article then discusses the theory of authorship by adoption, creative prompting and expressive inputs.