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CTOnews.com, August 20 (Xinhua)-- U.S. District Court Judge Beryl A. Howell ruled Friday that works of art generated by AI cannot be protected by copyright, according to The Hollywood Reporter. She heard a lawsuit against the US copyright Office in which the plaintiff Stephen Seller (Stephen Thaler) used his creative machine (Creativity Machine) algorithm to create an image generated by AI, but the copyright office rejected an application to grant him a copyright.

Works of art generated by artificial intelligence are not protected by copyright CTOnews.com notes that Sylar has repeatedly tried to copyright the image "the hired work of the owner of the creative machine" so that the creative machine can be listed as the author of the work. Sylar is the owner of the work, but he has been rejected. After the United States copyright Office finally refused last year, Sylar sued the copyright Office, claiming that his refusal was "arbitrary and capricious." and inconsistent with the law. But Judge Howell did not think so. in her judgment, Judge Howell wrote that copyright had never been granted to a work "without any human guidance", adding that "human creation is the cornerstone requirement of copyright." This has been proved in the past cases she cited, such as the one involving a monkey selfie. Instead, Judge Howell pointed out that in one case, a woman used a notebook to compile a book full of "words she believed to be dictated by supernatural" voices, which were copyrighted.

Judge Howell also acknowledged that humans are "approaching new areas of copyright", which will give rise to "challenging questions about how much human input is required for the artistic copyright of artificial intelligence creation." and pointed out that artificial intelligence models are usually trained on existing works.

Stephen Sylar plans to appeal the case. "We disagree with the court's interpretation of copyright law," said his lawyer, Brown Neri Smith & Khan LLP's Ryan Abbot, according to Bloomberg Law, citing a statement from the U.S. Copyright Administration that it believed the court's decision was correct.

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