There's two factors to copyright: economic rights and moral rights. Economic rights are concerned with the author's ability to protect personal monetary gain fr

There's two factors to copyright: economic rights and moral rights. Economic rights are concerned with the author's ability to protect personal monetary gain from the use of their work. Moral rights are concerned with the author's ability to gain reputation via acknowledgement, and prevent loss of reputation via improper framing/usage of the work. Generally, the idea of all this is to allow authors to maximize personal gain and minimize personal loss. IMO, the fundamental benefit to society of this framework is that it encourages people to voluntarily make decisions to produce creative works that will be a net benefit -- without these protections, people would not produce as much creative work because there would be less incentive to direct their effort in that direction. From that perspective, it doesn't really make much sense for an entity other than a human or group of humans to hold copyright of a work. A non-human entity doesn't have the capacity to choose where to direct their efforts based on future economic/reputation gain, so copyright or lack thereof will not affect their contributions to creative works. So whether this is good or bad depends on the specifics of how copyright works in the relevant jurisdiction. If a human author has the ability to unilaterally choose whether any non-human entity will hold copyright of a work, or if a human has the ability to unilaterally capture all gain resulting from the work, then I see this as generally good -- it has no major negatives, and allows humans to recognize the important of non-human entities. However, if a non-human entity automatically holds joint copyright, and a human coauthor cannot make unilateral decisions about the work, then this could be a bad thing. Human would tend to choose to avoid involving a non-human entity in the creation of a work, since they would get less incentive from doing so. That to me feels like the exact situation that that copyright was invented to avoid.