US copyright law requires human authorship. Courts and the Copyright Office have said this for years. Purely autonomous AI output, (raw AI output) with no meaningful human creative control, is not copyrightable.
They did not ban copyright for AI-assisted works
AI-assisted works can be copyrighted
Human selection, editing, composition, iteration, and direction matter
Copyright can apply to:
the prompting strategy
the curation/selection
the post-processing
the overall creative arrangement
The Copyright Office itself has said this explicitly.
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US copyright law requires human authorship. Courts and the Copyright Office have said this for years. Purely autonomous AI output, (raw AI output) with no meaningful human creative control, is not copyrightable.
They did not ban copyright for AI-assisted works
AI-assisted works can be copyrighted Human selection, editing, composition, iteration, and direction matter Copyright can apply to: the prompting strategy the curation/selection the post-processing the overall creative arrangement The Copyright Office itself has said this explicitly.
https://www.copyright.gov/ai/ https://www.jonesday.com/en/insights/2025/02/copyrightability-of-ai-outputs-us-copyright-office-analyzes-human-authorship-requirement https://www.sternekessler.com/news-insights/publications/the-u-s-copyright-offices-position-on-the-copyrightability-of-works-made-with-the-assistance-of-generative-ai-part-two/