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Supreme Court declines to review whether AI art can be copyrighted

Mar 4th 2026

The high court will not take up Thaler's case, leaving in place lower-court and Copyright Office rulings that works produced solely by AI without human authorship are ineligible for copyright.

  • The Supreme Court declined to hear Stephen Thaler's appeal over copyright for an AI-generated image.

Sources

theverge.com