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However, significant legal rulings have disrupted these efforts. In August 2023, a US district judge declared that AI-generated art cannot be copyrighted, effectively invalidating lawsuits that argued otherwise. This decision underscores a critical point: current copyright law is ill-equipped to address the realities of AI-generated content, rendering many legal claims moot.
McCoy suggests that copyright, as it stands, may be nearing obsolescence in this new landscape. Its foundational premise—protecting human-created works—loses relevance when AI can produce comparable, if not superior, content instantaneously. As AI-driven content becomes dominant, traditional concepts of original authorship and intellectual property rights may need reevaluation.