Can AI-generated innovation be protected?

IN LATE August, a Washington DC court ruled that work created by artificial intelligence (AI) cannot be protected by copyright.

Judge Beryl Howell said the case – a 2018 piece of art submitted by Stephen Thaler to the Copyright Office – was “not very complex”.

“We are approaching new frontiers in copyright as artists put AI in their toolbox”, which will raise challenging questions for copyright law, Howell wrote in her decision.