Threshold of originality is not the issue here. That's more applicable to things like security camera footage. 17 USC §102(a) confines copyright to "works of au

Threshold of originality is not the issue here. That's more applicable to things like security camera footage. 17 USC §102(a) confines copyright to "works of authorship." Without an author, there is no copyright. To date, only natural persons and corporations have been held to be authors.