The present contribution provides an overview of two of the most pressing legal questions concerning IP law, authorship of AI-generated works and copyright infringement. It does so through the lens of US copyright law, since US courts have dealt with the highest number of AI art cases, and many AI systems manufacturers and suppliers are based in the US. It cannot and does not address the full range of copyright issues, such as dataset algorithms copyright for example, neither does it provide a solution to the issue of copyrightability of AI works in general.