AI Developments at the U.S. Copyright Office in 2024

Herrick counsel, Barry Werbin, authored an article for IPWatchdog, Inc about how the U.S Copyright Office has been handling cases involving generative artificial intelligence ("AI") technology.

Barry noted in his article that "the Office has to date refused to register multiple works generated by AI platforms, regardless of the number of inputs (or “prompts”) applied by human creators to guide the resulting output of their creative concepts."

Although AI systems can involve multiple creative decisions by human users, Barry explained that this differs from "traditional digital imaging software, such as Adobe Photoshop, where users start with their own human-created visual works (independently protected by copyright) and then use the software to modify and enhance those images, generative AI systems directly produce original images and textual content based on prompts and their system training on large language models and massive image databases."

Read the full article in IPWatchdog, Inc here.