The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires. Such is the conundrum facing the U.S Copyright Office in this era of rapidly expanding generative artificial intelligence technology.
Human creativity has been the cornerstone of copyright protection for original works of authorship ever since the U.S. Constitution recognized copyright as a fundamental right.
The Copyright Office Compendium currently mandates that '[t]he U.S. Copyright Office will register an original work of authorship, provided that the work was created by a human being...'.
The tenet that originality exists only when a human is primarily responsible for creating works of authorship is currently in flux and subject to extensive debate.
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