District Court Affirms Human Authorship Requirement for the Copyrightability of Autonomously Generated AI

Partner Stuart Levi and associates Shannon Morgan and MacKinzie Neal discuss a recent decision by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia upholding the Copyright Office’s position that, because human authorship is required, a work generated purely by an AI system cannot be registered. The authors point out that the court did not reach the question of how much human involvement is necessary.