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March 2, 2026
AI-generated art can’t be copyrighted after Supreme Court declines to review the rule
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TL;DR
- The US Supreme Court will not review a decision denying copyright protection to AI-generated art.
- The decision upholds previous rulings that require human authorship for copyright.
- Stephen Thaler appealed a court's decision that found AI art ineligible for copyright.
- The US Copyright Office rejected Thaler's request to copyright an image created by his AI algorithm in 2019.
- Courts have consistently ruled that "human authorship is a bedrock requirement of copyright."
- The US federal circuit court also determined that AI systems cannot patent inventions because they are not human.
- The UK Supreme Court made a similar determination in a case brought by Thaler.
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