AI Art Remains Ineligible for Copyright As Supreme Court Declines to Hear Case

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-supreme-court-declines-hear-dispute-over-copyrights-ai-generated-material-2026-03-02/

TL;DR:

REUTERS: The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to take up the ​issue of whether art generated by artificial intelligence can be copyrighted under U.S. law, turning ‌away a case involving a computer scientist from Missouri who was denied a copyright for a piece of visual art made by his AI system. […] Copyright was denied because art lacked a human creator.

In my opinion, this is welcomed news. I hope other countries preemptively pass laws to prevent AI art from being copyrighted. Especially when you consider that LLMs are trained on artists and people’s data without their consent.

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