New Delhi, Sept. 1 -- The Indian Copyright Office has ruled that an artificial intelligence (AI) system cannot be recognised as an author under the Copyright Act, 1957, rejecting an application that named DABUS as the author of an artwork.

Registrar of Copyrights Prof. (Dr.) Unnat P. Pandit passed the order on August 31 on an application filed by American computer scientist Stephen L. Thaler for copyright registration of A Recent Entrance to Paradise.

DABUS Cannot Be Recognised as Author

The application named the Device for the Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience (DABUS), an AI system developed by Thaler, as the author and Thaler as the copyright owner.

The Copyright Office held that DABUS is neither a natural nor a juristic...