It’s not just attorneys—everyone is struggling to understand how generative AI fits into the rulebooks they have grown accustomed to, even if it means relying on zoological and spiritual precedent to do so.

The United States Copyright Office (USCO) recently found itself waffling on a copyright registration it granted, and then revoked, within a span of months. The work in question, a comic book, transcended the traditional AI authorship debate—it contained an amalgam of human-created text and generative AI-created artwork.