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US Supreme Court won’t review human authorship copyright rule for AI works

By Melissa Ritti ( March 2, 2026, 15:21 GMT | Insight) -- The US Supreme Court on Monday turned down Stephen Thaler’s challenge to the US Copyright Office’s position that artificial intelligence outputs which lack meaningful human involvement aren’t registrable. The denial of certiorari comes almost three years after the justices refused to disturb similar findings for AI patent inventorship, in a separate petition by the computer scientist.The growing legal consensus in the West (see here) that only human-authored works can be protected by copyright gained significant traction Monday....

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