US Supreme Court Declines To Hear Dispute Over Copyrights For AI-generated Material

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up the ​issue of whether art generated by artificial intelligence can be copyrighted under U.S. law, turning 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. For more information, click here.