{"id":1225,"date":"2025-11-18T16:44:41","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T20:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/?p=1225"},"modified":"2025-11-18T16:44:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T20:44:41","slug":"can-ai-creations-be-copyrighted-supreme-court-could-decide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/2025\/11\/18\/can-ai-creations-be-copyrighted-supreme-court-could-decide\/","title":{"rendered":"Can AI Creations Be Copyrighted? Supreme Court Could Decide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/marklerner.html\">Mark Lerner<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following a refusal to grant a copyright registration to Stephen Thaler for a work whose sole author was identified as \u201cCreativity Machine,\u201d a generative AI Thaler created, the D.C. Circuit affirmed that works authored exclusively by artificial intelligence are ineligible for copyright protection under the Copyright Act, which the court read to require human authorship, in keeping with the Copyright Office interpretation and prior case law. A petition for certiorari and a supporting\u00a0<em>amicus<\/em>\u00a0brief now ask the U.S. Supreme Court to take up the question of whether the Copyright Act requires human authorship, arguing that the statute\u2019s text, structure and purpose do not categorically impose such a requirement and that existing doctrines leave room for AI to be recognized as the author of protected works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the full&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/copyrightability_ai_generated_works_petition_certiorari_tees_up_supreme_court_review_1125.html\">Alert<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;on the Duane Morris website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By&nbsp;Mark Lerner Following a refusal to grant a copyright registration to Stephen Thaler for a work whose sole author was identified as \u201cCreativity Machine,\u201d a generative AI Thaler created, the D.C. Circuit affirmed that works authored exclusively by artificial intelligence are ineligible for copyright protection under the Copyright Act, which the court read to require &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/2025\/11\/18\/can-ai-creations-be-copyrighted-supreme-court-could-decide\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Can AI Creations Be Copyrighted? Supreme Court Could Decide&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1052],"tags":[552,548,152,1271,1270],"ppma_author":[878],"class_list":["post-1225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-copyright","tag-intellectual-property-law","tag-mark-lerner"],"authors":[{"term_id":878,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1225"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}