US Copyright Office, Copyright and Artificial Intelligence, Part 2: Copyrightability (January 2025): AI that assists versus AI that generates (U.S. Copyright Office, Copyright and Artificial Intelligence, Part 2: Copyrightability (January 2025), Introduction)
Work a person made with AI's help keeps its copyright; content a model generated alone has none. Everything between is decided case by case, which is why a holder should know which parts of a set a person wrote.
Dated 30 Oct 2026Source checked 30 Oct 2026Basis: primary text
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“Where AI merely assists an author in the creative process, its use does not change the copyrightability of the output. At the other extreme, if content is entirely generated by AI, it cannot be protected by copyright.”
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