The Fashion Law; Thaler Appeals D.C. Court Decision Denying Copyright for AI-Generated Art
"A case over the availability of copyright protection for artificial intelligence-generated artwork is headed before a U.S. appeals court. In a notice lodged on Wednesday, Stephen Thaler alerted the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia that he is appealing its August 18 decision, in which it held that an artwork created by AI is not eligible for copyright registration, to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. As first reported by TFL, Thaler – who sought to register the AI-generated artwork, “A Recent Entrance to Paradise” with the Copyright Office – is appealing the D.C. court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Shira Perlmutter and the Copyright Office and its denial of his own summary judgment motion this summer...
The case is Stephen Thaler v. Shira Perlmutter, et al., 1:22-cv-01564 (DDC)."
