Copyright Office: AI-assisted works can be copyrighted, only the machine can't be the author
TomLikesRobots · x · 2026-09-29
Responding to claims that AI-generated art is free for the taking, the author quotes the US Copyright Office's rule: the human authorship requirement 'does not prohibit copyrighting work that was made by or with the assistance of artificial intelligence.' The rule only requires that the author be a human—the person who created, operated, or used the AI—not the machine, and the Office has already registered such works. The author adds that many in the AI community favor remixing art anyway.
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