The virtual dog that didn't bark: Human and non-human authorship
Amid the barrage of headline-grabbing Supreme Court decisions last term, it was easy to miss the import of something the Court *didn’t* do. On March 2, 2026, it denied review of Thaler v. Perlmutter, a D.C. Circuit opinion holding that a virtual painting that was said to be produced solely by an artificial intelligence (AI) was not a work of authorship protected by the Copyright Act.
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