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Nonilex<p>Millet wrote that the text of the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Copyright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Copyright</span></a> Act of 1976, “taken as a whole, is best read as making humanity a necessary condition for authorship.” That <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> treats copyright as a heritable <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/property" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>property</span></a> right, suggesting an entity that can’t own property or have heirs can’t be an <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a>. It also couches copyright terms to a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/human" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>human</span></a> lifespan, she noted.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/IntellectualProperty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IntellectualProperty</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ThalerVPerlmutter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThalerVPerlmutter</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>The panel declined to rule more broadly on whether or when creating an <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> or prompting it could give rise to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/copyright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>copyright</span></a> protection, instead simply rejecting the concept of entirely autonomous authorship. It also said it didn’t need to reach the Copyright Office’s argument that the constitution itself requires <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/human" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>human</span></a> authorship.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/IntellectualProperty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IntellectualProperty</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ThalerVPerlmutter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThalerVPerlmutter</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>The opinion by Circuit Judge Patricia A. Millett lays down the first precedential marker regarding how <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/copyright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>copyright</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> treats works created by <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a>. While it sided w/the US Copyright Office’s operating position by finding <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/human" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>human</span></a> authorship is required for registration, it could create or reinforce perceptions in creative industries that AI’s contributions to a work represent unprotectable creative choices that can be freely copied.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/IntellectualProperty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IntellectualProperty</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ThalerVPerlmutter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThalerVPerlmutter</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>The DC Circuit's decision in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ThalerVPerlmutter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThalerVPerlmutter</span></a> is out, ruling that <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/copyright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>copyright</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> requires that <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/authors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>authors</span></a> be <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/human" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>human</span></a>, not <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a>, reasoning to this conclusion from the structure of the copyright statute (e.g., duration is based on the lifetime of the author)</p><p><a href="https://media.cadc.uscourts.gov/opinions/docs/2025/03/23-5233.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">media.cadc.uscourts.gov/opinio</span><span class="invisible">ns/docs/2025/03/23-5233.pdf</span></a></p><p>via NYU Law’s Jeanne Fromer </p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/IntellectualProperty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IntellectualProperty</span></a></p>
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