Comment from Gottlieb, Erik
Erik GottliebSupportIndividual
Summary: The commenter argues that increasing the single author fee creates an economic barrier to a constitutional right and suggests that the Copyright Office should implement workflow steps to filter out non-human authored works. They advocate for adding specific questions to the registration process to ensure applicants understand that works containing generative AI output are not registrable.
The Constitution of the United States Of America, Article 1, Section 8, paragraph 8, establishes by US Law:
"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;"
Increasing the single author fee through e-co above $45, icreates economic barrier to participate in US citizen constitutional right to own one's own writings and gain legitimate registration document (certificate) for an individual's creative, human authored work.
If in years 2026, 2027 there are too many Single Application, paid submissions for registration that fail to register, then segment or block the Copyright Claimant in the form fields registration process, reducing flawed applications.
For eample, adding a clearly worded, question as a workflow step.
Is the work being registered COMPLETELY HUMAN AUTHORED by ONE PERSON only?
As Copyright Claimant are you aware that works containimg Generative AI output are not Human Authored and are not registrable? See the following video from 2023 explaining which works are registrable and which content is not registrable.
https://www.copyright.gov/events/ai-application-process/