The United States Copyright Office’s review board has rejected a second request by Dr. Stephen Thaler, founder of Imagination Engines, to copyright a work of art that was created by an artificial intelligence (AI) system, concluding that it failed to have any “creative input or intervention from a human author.” The two-dimensional artwork is titled “A Recent Entrance to Paradise” and was created by an AI, which Thaler, who majored Summa Cum Laude in Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, and Russian at Westminster College, refers to as the “Creativity Machine.” Thaler initially filed an application to register a copyright claim in the artwork on Nov. 3, 2018, stating that it was “autonomously created by a computer algorithm running on a machine” and that he was “seeking to register this computer-generated work as a work-for-hire to the owner of the Creativity Machine.” However, a Copyright Office registration specialist in 2019 refused to register the claim on the basis that it “lacks the human …