Can AI Be an Author? US Copyright Office Guidance Quiz

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1. Who did Stephen Thaler list as the author of 'A Recent Entrance to Paradise'?
   • Himself
   • His AI system, the Creativity Machine
   • The Copyright Office
   • An anonymous collaborator
2. Which court affirmed the refusal in Thaler v. Perlmutter in March 2025?
   • The Ninth Circuit
   • The Supreme Court
   • The Federal Circuit
   • The D.C. Circuit
3. In the Zarya of the Dawn decision, what did the revised registration cover?
   • The text and the selection and arrangement of text and images
   • Only the Midjourney images
   • Everything in the comic, including the images
   • Nothing, because the entire registration was cancelled permanently
4. Why did the Office decide the Midjourney images were not authored by the user?
   • Midjourney owns the copyright to all outputs
   • The images were too simple to be creative
   • The user's prompts did not control the output closely enough
   • The images were published before registration
5. What did the March 2023 registration guidance require applicants to do?
   • Pay an extra fee for AI works
   • Disclose more-than-minimal AI-generated content and exclude it from the claim
   • List the AI system as a co-author
   • Avoid using AI tools entirely
6. According to the Office's January 2025 report, which contribution alone generally does NOT make an output protectable?
   • Substantial hand edits to AI output
   • Selection and arrangement of material
   • A human's own artwork used as input and kept in the output
   • Writing prompts
7. Which statement reflects a misconception the guide corrects?
   • Using any AI at all makes a work unprotectable
   • Human-written text in an AI-assisted book can be protected
   • Applicants must disclose AI content
   • Selection and arrangement can be protected
8. What practical step does the guide recommend creators take?
   • Register every prompt as a separate work
   • Remove all metadata from files
   • Keep drafts, layered files, edit histories and prompt logs
   • Avoid disclosing tools used