# Copyright Office Report Part 2: Copyrightability

- Date: 2025-01-29
- Type: news
- Credit: U.S. Copyright Office
- URL: https://aifilmhistory.org/entry/copyright-ai-part-2

Six months after the digital-replicas report, the Copyright Office publishes Part 2: the answer to the question every AI filmmaker has been asking — can the output of a generative model be copyrighted at all? The conclusion: AI-assisted work can be protected to the extent of the human contribution (curation, arrangement, edited human-authored material), but purely AI-generated material is not, and prompting alone doesn't qualify as authorship. For festivals, distributors, and rights desks, this is the legal handle they've been waiting for to evaluate which AI-assisted submissions they can actually license.

Links:
- USCO Report Part 2 (PDF): https://www.copyright.gov/ai/Copyright-and-Artificial-Intelligence-Part-2-Copyrightability-Report.pdf
- USCO AI Initiative: https://www.copyright.gov/ai/

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Source: https://aifilmhistory.org/entry/copyright-ai-part-2
Era: 2025 · The Studio Era
Last updated: 2026-09-14