DC Circ.’s Copyright Denial Of AI Art Is A Sign Of Future Fights

Kristian Stout March 20, 2025

Kristian Stout, director of innovation policy at ICLE, was quoted in this Law360 story about a recent DC Circuit Court ruling on AI and copyright. Read the full article here.

There is also a compelling reason to keep copyright registrations in the hands of humans, said Kristian Stout, director of innovation policy at the International Center for Law & Economics, a privately funded research group. “You can almost call it like a human protectionist element,” Stout said. “On the economic side, you want to make sure that you have the incentives for humans to keep producing the relevant works. Without new human works, the AI will just keep consuming its own outputs, which will be problematic in the long run.”