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orleans

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Sat Mar 7, 2026, 02:40 AM 6 hrs ago

with trump starting his war last weekend i missed this great news about AI on monday

"creative works must have human authors to be eligible to receive a copyright."



US Supreme Court declines to hear dispute over copyrights for AI-generated material

WASHINGTON, March 2 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to take up the ​issue of whether art generated by artificial intelligence can be copyrighted under U.S. law, turning ‌away a case involving a computer scientist from Missouri who was denied a copyright for a piece of visual art made by his AI system.

Plaintiff Stephen Thaler had appealed to the justices after lower courts upheld a U.S. Copyright Office ​decision that the AI-crafted visual art at issue in the case was ineligible for copyright protection ​because it did not have a human creator.

Thaler, of St. Charles, Missouri, applied for ⁠a federal copyright registration in 2018 covering "A Recent Entrance to Paradise," visual art he said his AI ​technology "DABUS" created. The image shows train tracks entering a portal, surrounded by what appears to be green and ​purple plant imagery.

The Copyright Office rejected his application in 2022, finding that creative works must have human authors to be eligible to receive a copyright.

more
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-supreme-court-declines-hear-dispute-over-copyrights-ai-generated-material-2026-03-02/



same goes for applying for a patent


i won't get into why i hate AI generated shit -- suffice to just say i do.

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with trump starting his war last weekend i missed this great news about AI on monday (Original Post) orleans 6 hrs ago OP
Sounds like the broken clock we call ScRotus was right once on Mon. SheltieLover 2 hrs ago #1
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