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Authorship Statutory Interpretation

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

IP Hot Topic: Cert. Denied, But One Thing is Cert-ain: The Human Authorship Requirement for Copyright

On March 2, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court denied the petition for a writ of certiorari in Thaler v. Perlmutter, No. 25-449, ending a multi-year effort to secure copyright protection for a work, “A Recent Entrance to Paradise,”...more

Morgan Lewis

US Supreme Court Declines to Consider Whether AI Alone Can Create Copyrighted Works

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The US Supreme Court has declined to consider the copyrightability of artwork generated purely autonomously by artificial intelligence, leaving in place the “human authorship requirement” for copyright protection. In this...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Dr. Thaler Is Right, in Part

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When Dr. Stephen Thaler asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider the human authorship requirement for copyright protection last month, many observers dismissed the effort. Thaler’s claim—that his generative AI system should...more

Houston Harbaugh, P.C.

Defending the Algorithm™: A Bayesian Analysis of AI Litigation and Law, When the Algorithm Speaks for Itself: Raine v. OpenAI and...

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In August 2025, a pair of California parents filed suit in California state court against OpenAI (Raine v. OpenAI, Inc.) after the death of their teenage son, alleging that the company’s generative-language model played a...more

Baker Botts L.L.P.

AI As An Author - "Creativity Machine" Creator Asks Supreme Court to Reconsider Authorship Requirements

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On October 9, 2025, Dr. Stephen Thaler and team submitted a petition for writ of certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court asking “[w]hether works outputted by an AI system without a direct, traditional authorial contribution by a...more

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