U.S. Copyright Office registered 1,000+ works enhanced by AI

The United States copyright office is in the midst of consistent investigation into the copyright law and artificial intelligence, and in a recent interview, an office lawyer said he is already registering improved works by AI.

In an April article in OMPIA MAGAZINE” The Assistant General Advisor Jalyce Mangum said that “the office has registered more than a thousand works where applicants have followed our orientation to reveal and renounce the material generated by AI.” Crucially, Mangum said the office considers “if AI is improving human expression or is the source of expressive elections.”

A January 2025 report stated that hundreds of Ai-Enhanance work had registered, said a spokesman for the United States copyright to Mashable. Now, we know that more than 1,000 of those works have been recorded.

Many artists have tasks a hard line against artificial intelligence, protesting in their use in Any Creative effort Mashable has reported on the reaction of the use of AI in films such as The Brutist and Afternoon at night with the devila recent resurrection project that uses the similarity of Agatha Christie, the restoration of The Oz Wizard For the sphere and the controversial image trend of Studio Gibli that used Chatgpt.

Previously, the office determined that the material generated by AI tools is eligible for the protection of copyright only if it is contained in the work done mainly by a human. As reported Mashable, that means that the images generated by tools such as Dall-E, Chatgpt or Midjourney cannot have copyright, regardless of how much work it occurs to adjust the notice. The complete guide of the US copyright office. UU. On the material assisted by AI is available on its website, a tolerant representative.

This guide was included in the second part of an office on the copyright and artificial intelligence. (Part 3, which will be launched at the end of this year, will have enormous implications of how AI models are trained). “In part 2 of our report, the office said that copyright does not extend to material or material generated by there are in insufficient in the peres”, “” “” “” “” “” “” “.” WIPO article.

However, the material that was simply “improved” by AI is currently eligible for copyright registration. Part 2 of the report also mentions specific use cases such as “Elimination of multitude of photos, video stabilization tools and ray layout.”