{"id":1178,"date":"2025-03-24T09:54:04","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T13:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/?p=1178"},"modified":"2025-03-26T09:57:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T13:57:37","slug":"artificial-intelligence-the-copyright-act-and-animal-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/2025\/03\/24\/artificial-intelligence-the-copyright-act-and-animal-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial Intelligence, the Copyright Act and Animal Law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On March 18. 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit affirmed a district court ruling that a work created with artificial intelligence (AI) using a machine cannot be registered in the name of the machine itself because the Copyright Act requires that a copyright owner be a human being.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Thaler v. Perlmutter<\/em>, No. 23-5233 (D.C. Cir. Mar. 18, 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In fact, the D.C. Circuit made a specific connection to animal law by citing the decision in&nbsp;<em>Naruto v. Slater<\/em>, 888 F.3d 418 (9th Cir. 2018), in which the Ninth Circuit held that a monkey cannot be an \u201cauthor\u201d under the Copyright Act.&nbsp; And, like&nbsp;<em>Thaler<\/em>, animal rights groups have tried to base their arguments on dictionary definitions.&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/animallawdevelopments\/2025\/03\/24\/d-c-circuit-machine-using-ai-to-create-artwork-cannot-own-a-copyright-in-the-artwork\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more on the Animal Law Developments Blog<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 18. 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit affirmed a district court ruling that a work created with artificial intelligence (AI) using a machine cannot be registered in the name of the machine itself because the Copyright Act requires that a copyright owner be a human being.&nbsp;&nbsp;Thaler v. Perlmutter, No. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/2025\/03\/24\/artificial-intelligence-the-copyright-act-and-animal-law\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Artificial Intelligence, the Copyright Act and Animal Law&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1052],"tags":[548,22],"ppma_author":[878],"class_list":["post-1178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-intellectual-property"],"authors":[{"term_id":878,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1178"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}