US Copyright Office Rejects Request to Copyright Artwork Created by Artificial Intelligence

Attendees take pictures and interact with the Engineered Arts Ameca humanoid robot with artificial intelligence as it is demonstrated during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Jan. 5, 2022. Patrick Fallon/AFP via Getty Images

The United States Copyright Office’s review board has rejected a second request by Dr. Stephen Thaler, founder of Imagination Engines, to copyright a work of art that was created by an artificial intelligence (AI) system, concluding that it failed to have any “creative input or intervention from a human author.”

The two-dimensional artwork is titled “A Recent Entrance to Paradise” and was created by an AI, which Thaler, who majored Summa Cum Laude in Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, and Russian at Westminster College, refers to as the “Creativity Machine.”