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Thaler wants Fed Circuit en banc rehearing over AI authorship

( May 5, 2025, 13:07 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Stephen Thaler filed a petition for an en banc rehearing at the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit after his attempt to receive copyright registration for artwork generated by his artificial intelligence model was denied by the US Copyright Office, and that denial upheld by two successive courts. The Federal Circuit ruled in March that copyright registration requires human authorship. Thaler argued in the petition that human authorship is not required under the Copyright Act and that his contributions to the work qualify as human authorship.See the petition attached....

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