[jazzyjackson]

AFAIK the only lawsuit that tests this so far was a kind of weird case where the programmer was trying to register his algorithm as the creator of the image, as a "work-for-hire". The copyright office's reasoning however banged on about the necessity of "human authorship"

> The Office also stated that it would not “abandon its longstanding interpretation of the Copyright Act, Supreme Court, and lower court judicial precedent that a work meets the legal and formal requirements of copyright protection only if it is created by a human author.”

https://www.copyright.gov/rulings-filings/review-board/docs/...