You may have read the article, but you failed to understand it. > Thaler applied to register the work as "as a work-for-hire to the owner of the Creativity Mac

You may have read the article, but you failed to understand it. > Thaler applied to register the work as "as a work-for-hire to the owner of the Creativity Machine.” That's his shtick. He disclaims any involvement in the creation of the work, other than "hiring" the AI to create it for him, and then pretends to be offended when people draw the conclusion that he doesn't own the work because (according to him) it wasn't created by a human.