Allen v. Perlmutter tests whether prompting is authorship

In Allen v. Perlmutter, an artist who used more than 600 iterative prompts to produce an image was denied registration by the Copyright Office and is challenging that refusal in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado.

This is the open question after Thaler: how much human input is enough. The answer will apply directly to heavily prompted code.

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