India, April 10 -- The Delhi high court, in a first on Thursday, directed the Copyright Office to decide within eight weeks an application filed by American AI researcher Dr Stephen Thaler seeking copyright registration for his artwork, generated by an artificial intelligence (AI) system he developed.

The artistic work, titled "A Recent Entrance to Paradise", was generated by Thaler using his AI system DABUS (Device for the Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience).

Thaler has filed multiple applications across jurisdictions, including the United Kingdom, New Zealand and the United States, seeking recognition of his AI system as an inventor or author. In March, the US Supreme Court declined to entertain his petition challenging dec...