We finally have a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Copyright Office’s misguided approach denying authorship in AI-generated works under the obscure requirement of “traditional elements of authorship,” a term that no federal court has ever used in a copyright decision.
Jason Allen, whose initial version of the work Théâtre D’opéra Spatial (on the left) was denied copyright registration, has just filed a declaratory judgment action in Colorado seeking the reversal of the Copyright Office decision and a declaration that his work constitutes a work of authorship.