Dr. Craig has now been issued a fully vetted certificate of copyright by US Government Copyright office.
This can not be contested unless you have standing so this is now firm.
Dr. Craig has not applied today, he did that months back.
It doesn't matter. Anyone else can have the same copyright registered as well. Disputes over copyright ownership are sorted out in the courts, not the Copyright Office. The whitepaper and original code were already copyrighted by default when they were published. Initial distribution under the MIT license destroys any chance Craig Wright has of charging rent to use the Bitcoin code, as he apparently intends to do. It almost seems like another pathetic attempt to "prove" he's Satoshi more than anything else.
The bitcoin community is looking at Craig Wright as a big joker who is restless unless the whole world will accept his notion that he is the real Satoshi Nakamoto and no one else. He is willing to bulldoze anyone and anything that comes in the way to his goals. Craig Wright is actually the enemy of the community. And now he is using the copyright law of USA into his side by filing the claim for the original bitcoin WhiePaper. Such a big shame because by his own very actions he is showing us that he is just another fake and can never be the man who founded and started the bitcoin movement.