"A computer scientist attributes authorship of an artwork to the operation of software.
[The scientist] created a generative artificial intelligence named the “Creativity Machine.” The Creativity Machine made a picture that [the scientist] titled “A Recent Entrance to Paradise.”
[The scientist] submitted a copyright registration application for “A Recent Entrance to Paradise” to the United States Copyright Office.
On the application, [the scientist] listed the Creativity Machine as the work’s sole author and himself as just the work’s owner.
Source : Thaler v Perlmutter. Argued September 19, 2024 Decided March 18, 2025, No. 23-5233, Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Columbia (No. 1:22-cv-01564)
