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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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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 68; no. 7; pp. 26 - 29
Main Author: Samuelson, Pamela
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Jul2025
Subjects:
Generative artificial intelligence
Authorship
Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Actions & defenses (Law)
Kashtanova, Kris
Thaler, Stephen
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary: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.