Supreme Court Denies AI Copyright Challenge — Human Authorship Now Settled Law
The U.S. Supreme Court has denied certiorari in Thaler v. Perlmutter, definitively confirming that AI cannot hold copyrights under U.S. law.
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The U.S. Supreme Court has denied certiorari in Thaler v. Perlmutter, definitively confirming that AI cannot hold copyrights under U.S. law.
In what would be the largest copyright infringement payout in U.S. history, Anthropic has offered to settle claims from 500,000 affected authors.
The U.S. Copyright Office concludes that AI developers who train models to generate content competing with originals go beyond fair use.
| Case | Party | Status | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thaler v. Perlmutter | vs. Copyright Office | Closed | AI cannot be author |
| NYT v. OpenAI | New York Times | Active | Pending |
| Authors v. Anthropic | 500K+ Authors | Settlement | $1.5B offered |
| Authors v. Meta | Multiple Authors | Partial Ruling | Fair use (narrow) |
| Thomson Reuters v. Ross | Thomson Reuters | Decided | Infringement found |
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