AI’s use in art, movies gets a boost from the U.S. Copyright Office 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.

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

Works created entirely by prompts and generative AI cannot be copyright protected • Works created by both humans and AI need to be determined on a case-by-case basis • The copyright of photographs was once questioned because they "were the product of a machine.

The report by the office could help allow the use of AI tools in films, music, books, and other creative fields.