What AI-IP: Guidance on Authorship requires
The US Copyright Office's AI Policy Statement (February 2023) and subsequent guidance (March 2023) establish that copyright protection requires human authorship - purely AI-generated content without human creative control is not copyrightable in the United States. Works involving AI assistance may receive copyright protection for the human-authored elements, but only if a human author made sufficient creative choices that were expressed in the final output. The EU, UK, and other jurisdictions take varying positions, with the UK's Computer Generated Works doctrine providing limited protection for AI outputs. Misrepresenting AI-generated content as human-authored to obtain copyright registration constitutes fraud; failure to disclose AI involvement in patent applications may similarly invalidate those applications.
Pillar: Legal & IP Sovereignty · Authority: U.S. Copyright Office / USPTO · Version: 1.1.0 · Last updated:
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Primary Citations — 9 traced to source
- US Copyright Office - Copyright and Artificial Intelligence Part 1 (2023), 88 FR 16190
- US Copyright Office - AI Policy Statement - March 2023 (Zarya of the Dawn registration)
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