The U.S. Copyright Office has again refused to recognize an artificial intelligence as the author of a work for copyright purposes.

This renewed rejection follows Steven Thaler’s request for the Copyright Office to reconsider its earlier refusals to recognize an AI algorithm, dubbed the “Creativity Machine,” as the author of a visual work entitled A Recent Entrance to Paradise, reproduced here:

A Recent Entrance to Paradise


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We are back with Part II of our Top 10 Tech Trends in Media in 2022. Previously on Part I, technology took center stage, with the metaverse, NFTs and video games in leading roles, along with surprise guest, monopsony. We previewed that OTT and FAST were up next but in our next big story arc it is content that reigns supreme!  Here are numbers 5, 6 and 7 on our list.

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New Year’s Eve celebrations ushered in 2022 with a muted blare, as the Times Square crowd dropped from the usual 1 million revelers to a mere 15,000. We started out 2022 by launching our first Emerging Technology Trends Report highlighting 10 notable areas and addressing the technology itself, as well as how these developments have driven new legal and regulatory demands. The Consumer Electronics Show made a quiet splash after the omicron variant led major media and technology companies to cancel in-person appearances in Vegas. Digital Hollywood went virtual, staying true to its name, if not to its original plan. Fast-forward to the spring and the show did go on, with SXSW 2022 and other in-person conferences making a tentative comeback.
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We live in a disruptive age, with advances in technology largely fueling the disruption.

The internet, smartphones, mobile computing, social media, cloud computing, big data, blockchain, the Internet of Things, and so many more to come—these technologies have transformed, and continue to transform, our work, our lives, and our society (often for the better, but not always).

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