The new guidelines say that AI prompts currently don’t offer enough control to “make users of an AI system the authors of the output.” (AI systems themselves can’t hold co

Artwork generated by artificial intelligence must have a human contributor to earn copyright protection in the United States, the U.S. Copyright Office has determined.

The generative AI boom has raised complex, multibillion-dollar legal questions that courts across the country are in the early stages of trying to address. A new report from the U.S. Copyright Office might help with at least one of them.