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Inside the Copyright Office’s Report, “Copyright and Artificial Intelligence, Part 1: Digital Replicas”

Posted by: Nora Scheland

The Copyright Office recently released "Copyright and Artificial Intelligence, Part 1: Digital Replicas," the first Part of its Report examining the legal and policy issues related to artificial intelligence and copyright.

The Economics of Creativity: A Q&A with the Copyright Office’s Chief Economist

Posted by: Anjana Padmanabhan

In 2022, the U.S. Copyright Office welcomed Dr. Brent Lutes to serve as the Office’s first chief economist. Office staff recently sat down with Dr. Lutes and discussed the intersection of economics and copyright as well as some forthcoming economic research the Office of the Chief Economist (OCE) is producing. What is the mission of …

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Looking Forward: The U.S. Copyright Office’s AI Initiative in 2024

Posted by: Nora Scheland

This blog post previews the next steps of the U.S. Copyright Office’s comprehensive initiative to examine the copyright implications of the current forms of generative AI and shares highlights from a recent copyright and AI initiative update letter to Congress from Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter.

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New Learning Engine Video Highlights the History of Copyright

Posted by: Nora Scheland

This blog post introduces the U.S. Copyright Office’s newest Learning Engine video, “History of Copyright,” which chronicles the history of copyright and the Copyright Office. The Office has released the video, and this blog post, timed with the 234th anniversary of the Congressional bill that eventually became the first federal copyright law.