Copyright Office Sets Sights on Artificial Intelligence in 2023

"This year, the big milestone was having the board open its doors and start accepting claims," Perlmutter said, adding that board decisions will start coming in the next year. Though it is "still early days" and it remains unclear what the standard volume of claims will be, Perlmutter said she is "extremely impressed" with how well the board is doing. It's received over 260 cases so far. She added that several of the cases have been dismissed. The office believes that means they've been settled, which would adhere to the alternative dispute resolution mechanism of the board, she said. "We set up this totally new tribunal in really record time. I think most other agencies who have seen what we've done can't understand how we managed that in under a year and a half, because it required a lot of work," she said.