OpenAI’s Sora & the Role of the US Copyright OfficeBy Bart MuellerWhen Shira Perlmutter took office as the 14th Register of Copyrights in October 2020, many saw the US Copyright Office as relatively unimportant—a group of glorified librarians tucked away in a sleepy back room of the Library of Congress. Yet, enter Stephen Thaler, who, in a lawsuit against Perlmutter and the Copyright Office for denying his copyright in a work he specifically disclosed as generated by AI, contended that artificial intelligence could fulfill the role of an author. [9] The primary goal of copyright law is to incentivize human innovation, not that of an algorithmic machine. Yet, the emergence of AI technologies like Sora has undoubtedly catalyzed a significant shift in the importance Copyright Office, putting them at the helm of the sinking ship that is our copyright laws in the age of AI. [1] Cecilia Kang, The Sleepy Copyright Office in the Middle of a High-Stakes Clash Over A.I., N.Y. Times, (Jan. 25, 2024), https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/25/technology/ai-copyright-office-law.html.

Source: New York Times March 06, 2024 01:27 UTC