Copyrighting an AI

The verdict is in: the Doctor's holonovel and Data's poem about Spot can't be copyrighted:

https://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/02/us-copyright-office-refuses-to-register.html

I agree with the copyright office. An AI is a tool, and a tool can't copyright anything. A paintbrush can't demand copyright of anything it created. It seems to me, though, that the person or team who PROGRAMMED the AI could file a copyright for anything the AI created, just like an artist can copyright something the paintbrush creates.

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