Supreme Court Declines AI Copyright Case
The US Supreme Court has declined to hear a dispute over whether artwork generated entirely by artificial intelligence can be protected under US copyright law.
The case involved computer scientist Stephen Thaler, who sought copyright registration for an image created by his AI system, DABUS. The US Copyright Office rejected the application, stating that copyright law requires human authorship.
A federal judge in Washington upheld that decision in 2023, and the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit affirmed it in 2025, calling human authorship a fundamental requirement of copyright.
By declining to review the case, the Supreme Court leaves the lower court rulings in place. For now, works created solely by AI without human creative input are not eligible for copyright protection under US law.
The decision does not rule on all AI related copyright questions but reinforces the current legal standard tying copyright to human creators.
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