• Works created entirely by prompts and generative AI cannot be copyright protected
• Works created by both humans and AI need to be determined on a case-by-case basis
• The copyright of photographs was once questioned because they "were the product of a machine.”
Existing intellectual property law is enough to guide artists into the age of generative AI, the US Copyright Office has concluded in a new report published on January 29. In the second part of the Artificial Intelligence Report, the US Copyright Office addresses key questions over whether or not generative AI can be protected under current copyright law. The report says that prompt-based generative AI cannot be copyrighted, but addresses the questions surrounding works made by a joint effort between humans and AI.
