Enrico Bonadio (City U London) and Honor Felisberto (U Lausanne Law) have posted “Copyrightability of AI Outputs: The US Copyright Office’s Perspective European Intellectual Property Review” on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
In August 2023, the United States Copyright Office (USCO) published a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) and request for comments on the intersection between Artificial Intelligence (AI) and copyright. The USCO had earlier announced it would issue a Report in several Parts analysing the comments received. On July 31 st , 2024, the first Part of the Report, on the topic of digital replicas, had been published. The second part of this Report, available since January 29 th , 2025, addresses the copyrightability of outputs generated by AI systems. This short note offers a summary of the latter, more precisely of the USCO’s recommendations.