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Title: AI-Generated Art Can't Be Copyrighted After Supreme Court Declines To
Review the Rule

Link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/03/03/05452...

The Supreme Court of the United States declined to review a case challenging
the U.S. Copyright Office's stance that AI-generated works lack the required
human authorship for copyright protection, leaving lower court rulings
intact. The Verge reports: The Monday decision comes after Stephen Thaler, a
computer scientist from Missouri, appealed a court's decision to uphold a
ruling that found AI-generated art can't be copyrighted. In 2019, the U.S.
Copyright Office rejected Thaler's request to copyright an image, called A
Recent Entrance to Paradise, on behalf of an algorithm he created. The
Copyright Office reviewed the decision in 2022 and determined that the image
doesn't include "human authorship," disqualifying it from copyright
protection. After Thaler appealed the decision, U.S. District Court Judge
Beryl A. Howell ruled in 2023 that "human authorship is a bedrock requirement
of copyright." That ruling was later upheld in 2025 by a federal appeals
court in Washington, DC. As reported by Reuters, Thaler asked the Supreme
Court to review the ruling in October 2025, arguing it "created a chilling
effect on anyone else considering using AI creatively." The U.S. federal
circuit court also determined that AI systems can't patent inventions because
they aren't human, which the U.S. Patent Office reaffirmed in 2024 with new
guidance. The UK Supreme Court made a similar determination.

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