A US court in Washington DC has ruled that artwork created entirely by artificial intelligence without human input cannot be patented in the country. Reuters. The judge’s decision comes as computer scientist Stephen Thaler appealed a US Copyright Office decision to deny the researcher’s DABUS system its own copyright for works created without human input.
Stephen Taylor’s lawyer said his client disagreed with the decision and would appeal. In the past, Stephen Thaler has submitted similar patent applications for products developed by DABUS in countries such as Great Britain, South Africa, Australia and Saudi Arabia.
It is worth mentioning in this context that the US Copyright Office had earlier denied a person copyright for an artwork created by Midjourney, an AI-based image creation tool. This is despite the person arguing that the AI tool is part of the creative process.
Currently, there are several active cases in the US involving AI-based image generation systems being trained on copyrighted material without permission.
In the ruling for DABUS, Judge Beryl Howell writes that a new world for copyright is looming as AI becomes a tool for artists, which will create many complex situations. According to Judge Beryl Howell, the DABUS case is not one of these because human authorship has been the basis of copyright for hundreds of years.
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