Mind Over Matter: Addressing Challenges of Computer-Generated Works Under Copyright Law

22 Wake Forest J. Bus. & Intell. Prop. L. 129

Authorship in copyright has always been a challenging notion due
to its ambiguity. Who is an author of a work and what qualifies them
as such? Most jurisdictions have answered these questions by imposing
creativity and originality requirements; originality being the requisite
skill, labor, and judgment. The author, in most cases, is the originator
of the work who can show that enough creativity or originality was
involved in their process of creating the work and that there is a clear
direct line from their process to the final copyrightable work.