{"id":170097,"date":"2023-08-20T13:36:29","date_gmt":"2023-08-20T18:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/ai-generated-art-cannot-be-copyrighted-rules-a-us-federal-judge"},"modified":"2023-08-20T13:36:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T18:36:29","slug":"ai-generated-art-cannot-be-copyrighted-rules-a-us-federal-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/ai-generated-art-cannot-be-copyrighted-rules-a-us-federal-judge","title":{"rendered":"AI-generated art cannot be copyrighted, rules a US Federal Judge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-generated-art-cannot-be-copyrighted-rules-a-us-federal-judge2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>DC District Court Judge Beryl A. Howell says human beings are an \u201cessential part of a valid copyright claim.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>United States District Court Judge Beryl A. Howell ruled on Friday that AI-generated artwork can\u2019t be copyrighted.<\/p>\n<p>Thaler had tried multiple times to copyright the image \u201cas a work-for-hire to the owner of the Creativity Machine,\u201d which would have listed the author as the creator of the work and Thaler as the artwork\u2019s owner, but he was repeatedly rejected.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\u201cHuman authorship is a bedrock requirement of copyright.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DC District Court Judge Beryl A. Howell says human beings are an \u201cessential part of a valid copyright claim.\u201d United States District Court Judge Beryl A. Howell ruled on Friday that AI-generated artwork can\u2019t be copyrighted. Thaler had tried multiple times to copyright the image \u201cas a work-for-hire to the owner of the Creativity Machine,\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}