Judge Rules AI-Created Art Unprotected by Copyright

Despite being over 100 days into the writers strike, the worries about studios using generative artificial intelligence to entirely write scripts have not come to fruition.

The decision came in response to a challenge by Stephen Thaler, CEO of Imagination Engines, who sought to register AI-generated works.

The judge upheld the U.S. Copyright Office’s stance that copyright protection only extends to works created by humans, not AI.

U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell has emphasized that copyright law has “never stretched so far” to “protect works generated by new forms of technology operating absent any guiding human hand.”