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US Copyright Office requires applicants to disclose and disclaim AI-generated material

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Source: Federal Register

Guidance published in the Federal Register on 16 March 2023 and effective that day says the Office registers only human authorship and that a prompt alone generally does not make the user an author. Applicants must disclose AI-generated content that is more than de minimis, describe the human contribution and should not list an AI tool as an author. Applicants with pending applications or existing registrations should correct them.

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Anyone registering a work made partly with AI in the US must now disclose it, and registrations that omit it risk cancellation or being disregarded in court.

When
16 Mar 2023
ID
WTA-N-2023-0048
Who
US Copyright Office; Shira Perlmutter
Topics
Copyright

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from Federal Register. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

Read the original at Federal Register

Source copy: download the page as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

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WTA-N-2023-0048: “US Copyright Office requires applicants to disclose and disclaim AI-generated material.” wheresthe.ai, 16 Mar 2023. https://wheresthe.ai/d/us-copyright-office-ai-registration-guidance-2023-03/ (source: Federal Register).

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