Stephen Barrett (Partner-New York, NY) and Gabriela Rios (Associate-New York, NY) provide an overview of the U.S. Copyright Office’s AI Report analyzing copyright protections involving outputs generated by AI systems in “Part 2: Copyrightability,” appearing in the February 18, 2025, posting of Westlaw Today. The authors discuss the Copyright Office’s “important distinction between using AI as a tool to assist in the creation of works and using AI as a stand-in for human creativity.” Stephen and Gabriela review the Report’s summary on the existing legal framework and its application to AI, along with its assessment on three types of human contributions to AI. Currently, using AI tools to assist, as opposed to replace, the creative process does not affect the availability of copyright protection for the output. But courts will continue to grapple with AI as the copyrightability inquiry requires an analysis of each work and the context of its creation.