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“Under the US Copyright Office's 2023 registration guidance, material generated entirely by an AI system from a text prompt is not the product of human authorship and cannot be registered, while a human's own selection or arrangement of that material can be.”
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Source 2 (Thaler v. Perlmutter) and Source 1's discussion of the 'Recent Entrance to Paradise' refusal confirm that a work generated entirely by an AI system without human involvement lacks the human authorship required for copyright, matching the first half of the claim. However, the retrieved text of Source 1 is truncated partway through Section II (cutting off mid-sentence at the Supreme Court authorship case) and never reaches any statement about a human's 'selection or arrangement' of AI material being registrable, so that second half of the claim is not settled by the provided sources.
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human authorship is an essential part of a valid copyright claim
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Issue pulse · section queue · checked 2026-09-07