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The Review Board upheld the refusal to register the two-dimensional artwork.
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The Review Board upheld the refusal to register the two-dimensional artwork.
Decision date. The applicant claimed autonomous machine creation; the outcome cannot be generalized to mean all AI-assisted creation lacks protection.
Editorial research question
Editorial interpretation: records institutional boundaries of human authorship as context for artistic disputes; the applicant is not classified as an anti-AI activist.
This is an editorial interpretation or question, separate from factual statements.
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The Review Board upheld the refusal to register the two-dimensional artwork.
SRC-0137Page 1: date and decision upholding refusal; page 7: discussion of human authorship and work made for hire.
U.S. Copyright Office · EN · 2022-02-14
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