[MattRix]

How much authorship is needed to claim copyright though? If the creation is made by a combination of AI and human, then there must be a certain point where it becomes copyrightable, a fact that many AI art generation services will exploit.

[nanidin]

The case in question was a PR stunt intended to get the AI recognized as the author in order to build clout for the company that created the AI. “Look, a judge determined that our AI is so advanced that it can be the author of works of art, and is therefore a person.” It’s similar to stunts that try to get courts to recognize god as real or not real.

The fundamental question was not whether the work could be copyrighted or not - only whether the AI could be listed as the author of the work. It would be similar to if I tried to register a copyright with my digital camera listed as the author of the work. A camera is not a person, so it cannot be the author.

[doh]

It's a good question, one that has not been answered yet. We will have to wait for some court cases to have this answer.