TY  - CASE
TI  - Thaler v. Perlmutter: Supreme Court denies certiorari, human-authorship requirement upheld
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/03/02/
PB  - US Supreme Court / SCOTUSblog
AB  - On 2 March 2026, the US Supreme Court denied certiorari in Thaler v. Perlmutter (case 23-5233), allowing the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals opinion of 18 March 2025 to stand as the binding US authority on AI authorship. The ruling settles, for the current period, the question of whether an AI system can hold copyright: it cannot. Works with no asserted human authorship are not copyrightable in the US. Human contributions to AI-assisted work remain assessed on a case-by-case basis. For animation educators, the ruling is the authoritative reference for every discussion of copyright in AI-assisted student work.
KW  - ip-and-copyright
KW  - generative-ai
KW  - content-provenance
KW  - digital-replicas
UR  - https://www.scotusblog.com/cases/thaler-v-perlmutter/
LA  - en
ER  -