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While finding that “A Recent Entrance to Paradise” satisfies the limited threshold of “originality” under Section 13, the Copyright Office held that DABUS cannot be entered as an author under Section 2(d)(vi).
“The applicant was seeking monopoly over matters in which ex-facie no copyright subsisted to begin with, like common themes, ideas, unoriginal/stocks/scenes-a-faire matters, and other aspects directly flowing from such elements.”
“If any person or entity mis-describes the work as an original work, when it is actually not and is a copy of another work, such registration will be a registration wrongly remaining on the Register of Copyrights.”
“Copyright Act gives a range of rights and privileges to the first owner of copyright without requiring prior registration.”