Overview
- The Delhi High Court, which issued the order Thursday, directed the Registrar of Copyrights to hold a hearing on April 27 and decide the application within eight weeks.
- American researcher Stephen Thaler seeks rights over “A Recent Entrance to Paradise,” an image he says his AI system DABUS created autonomously, after filing in March 2022 and waiting nearly four years.
- The Copyright Office earlier sent a discrepancy letter saying only a natural person can be an author and asked for a human name and a no‑objection certificate from that author.
- Thaler argues DABUS caused the work to be generated and should be named as author or at least co‑author, citing the Act’s provision for computer‑generated works that ties authorship to the person who causes the work to be created.
- Courts in the United States, United Kingdom and European Union have required human authorship, yet India once listed the RAGHAV AI tool as a co‑author in 2020, so this decision could reset how officials register AI‑made works.