US Copyright Office report on copyrightability AI

The United States Copyright Office released its second report dealing with artificial intelligence (AI) and copyright. The report, Copyright and Artificial Intelligence Part 2: Copyrightability, unsurprising, concludes that copyright does not extend to purely AI-generated material where there is insufficient human control over the expressive elements. However, and consistent with copyright law, it concluded that copyright can subsist in generative AI outputs that contain copies of inputs that are perceptible in AI-generated outputs, as well as where persons take AI-generated outputs and select, arrange, coordinate, or modify them to meet the threshold requirements of originality.…