The court sides with the U.S. Copyright Office that human authorship is an essential part of a valid copyright claim in today’s Thaler v. Perlmutter summary judgment order. At issue on the motions for summary judgment filed by each party was whether work autonomously generated entirely by an artificial intelligence system should be eligible for copyright. Plaintiff Stephen Thaler owns the Creativity Machine, a system created by Thaler that generated a piece of visual art on its own accord cal...