New Delhi, April 9 -- The Delhi High Court on Thursday instructed the Copyright Office to decide within eight weeks on an application seeking copyright protection for an artwork generated by American AI researcher Stephen Thaler using artificial intelligence, BarandBench reported.

The direction was issued in a petition filed by Thaler, who is seeking copyright recognition for an artwork titled "A Recent Entrance to Paradise", which he claims was created independently by his AI system DABUS (Device for the Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience).

Justice Tushar Rao Gedela disposed of the petition after observing that the Copyright Office has fixed a hearing in the case for 27 April, and instructed the Registrar of Copyrights to wr...