Indian Copyright Office: AI-generated work can be protected, but AI cannot be the author
India's Copyright Office rejected an application naming the DABUS system as author, after its US creator declined to change the authorship details. The decision was issued by Registrar Unnat P. Pandit and concerns the work "A Recent Entrance to Paradise".
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