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Department of Justice Urges Supreme Court Not to Hear AI Image Authorship Case<\/a><\/p>\n

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The U.S. Department of Justice has urged the Supreme Court to decline a request from a computer scientist seeking copyright protection for an image created entirely by an AI system.<\/p>\n

According to a report by IP Watchdog, the Department of Justice urged the Supreme Court on January 23 not to hear a petition filed by Stephen Thaler, who is attempting to copyright an image titled A Recent Entrance to Paradise. Thaler submitted the application on behalf of an AI system he calls the Creativity Machine, which he identified as the sole creator of the work.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Copyright Office previously rejected Thaler\u2019s application, citing its long-standing requirement that copyrighted works must be authored by a human being. In Thaler\u2019s filing, the Creativity Machine was listed as the only author of the image. That decision was upheld through two rounds of internal administrative review. The Copyright Office\u2019s Review Board concluded that the image \u201cwas autonomously created by artificial intelligence without any creative contribution from a human actor.\u201d<\/p>\n

In response to Thaler\u2019s latest bid to copyright the image created by AI, the Department of Justice argued that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit correctly affirmed the Copyright Office\u2019s refusal to register the work. The government said the appeals court properly applied existing law by denying copyright protection to an image that was openly acknowledged to have been created without human authorship. Thaler\u2019s petition for a writ of certiorari, filed in October, contends that denying copyright protection to AI-generated works could put at risk the rights of other creators who rely on technology to produce their work. <\/p>\n

IP Watchdog reports that in its brief, the Department of Justice countered that the court of appeals reached the correct conclusion and that its ruling does not conflict with any Supreme Court or other appellate court precedent. It argues that although the…<\/p>\n

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