“The USCO “will not register works produced by a machine or mere mechanical process that operates randomly or automatically without any creative input or intervention from a human author,” according to current rules.
The office, on the other hand, has left the door open to granting copyright protections for work with AI-generated elements. “The answer will depend on the circumstances, particularly how the AI tool operates and how it was used to create the final work,” the document stated. “This is a case-by-case investigation. If a work’s traditional authorship elements were produced by a machine, the work lacks human authorship and will not be registered by the Office.”
