US Copyright Office Refuses to Register AI-Generated Work, Finding that "human authorship is a prerequisite to copyright protection"

Can a work entirely created by a machine be protected by copyright?

On Valentine’s Day, the US Copyright Office (Review Board) answered this question with a heartbreaking ‘no’, holding that “copyright law only protects “the fruits of intellectual labor” that “are founded in the creative powers of the [human] mind”” and consequently refusing to register the two-dimensional artwork 'A Recent Entrance to Paradise' below (the ‘Work’):

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