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“The U.S. Copyright Office denied Thaler’s application based on its requirement that work must be authored in the first instance by a human being. The copyright application listed Creativity Machine as the work’s sole author.”
They only ruled that AIs themselves cannot hold copyright.
“The Copyright Office has allowed the registration of works made by human authors who use artificial intelligence. The debate over how much AI contributed to a human author’s work was not the focus of the Thaler case because Thaler listed Creativity Machine as the sole author.”