The U.S. Copyright Office is in the midst of a consequential investigation into copyright law and
artificial intelligence
, and in a recent interview, a lawyer with the Office said it is already registering works enhanced by AI.
In an April article in
WIPO Magazine
,
Assistant General Counsel
Jalyce Mangum
said that the “Office has registered more than a thousand works where applicants have followed our guidance to disclose and disclaim AI-generated material.” Crucially, Mangum said the office considers “whether AI is enhancing human expression or is the source of the expressive choices.”
A report released in January 2025 by the Office indicated that numerous AI-augmented creations were registered. A representative from the U.S. Copyright Office informed Vmeetsolutions News about this development, revealing that over 1,000 of these types of works have now been recorded.
Many artists have taken
a strict stance against artificial intelligence
, objecting to its usage in
any
Vmeetsolutions News has covered the criticism surrounding the creative effort.
utilization of AI in movies such as
The Brutalist
and
Midnight with the Devil
, an initiative launched recently aimed at bringing something back to life
utilizes the image of Agatha Christie
, the
restoration of
The Wizard of Oz
for The Sphere
, and the
the contentious Studio Ghibli visual phenomenon that used ChatGPT
.
Earlier, the Office stated that AI-generated content qualifies for copyright protection only if it is part of a work mainly created by a person. As reported by Vmeetsolutions News, this implies
Images created using tools such as DALL-E
,
ChatGPT
, or Midjourney cannot be subject to copyright protection, regardless of the effort put into refining the prompts. The U.S. Copyright Office’s complete guidelines on AI-generated content are
available on its website
, as a representative informed us.
That advice was contained in the latter section.
a report from the Office of
On copyright and artificial intelligence. (Part 3, scheduled to
released later this year
, this will significantly impact the way AI models are trained.”) “In Part 2 of our report, the Office confirmed that copyright does not apply to content generated solely by AI or materials where humans do not exert sufficient creative control over the expression,” Mangum stated in the
WIPO article.
Nevertheless, content that has been “improved” using AI technology can still be registered for copyright at this time. The second part of the document further discusses particular applications like “eliminating crowds from images, video stabilization software, and ray tracing.”
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