Judge Upholds Ruling Against Copyright Protection for AI-Created Artwork

A federal judge upheld a finding from the U.S. Copyright Office that a piece of art created by artificial intelligence (AI) is not open to protection. The ruling was delivered in an order turning down Stephen Thaler’s bid challenging the government’s position refusing to register works made by AI. Copyright law has “never stretched so far” to “protect works generated by new forms of technology operating absent any guiding human hand,” U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell found.