Dr. Thaler Is Right, in Part

When Dr. Stephen Thaler asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider the human authorship requirement for copyright protection last month, many observers dismissed the effort. Thaler’s claim—that his generative AI system should be recognized as the author of its own outputs—has been consistently rejected by courts and the Copyright Office. On its face, Dr. Thaler’s petition for a writ of certiorari looks untenable: under current law, “authorship” remains a human concept….
By: Seyfarth Shaw LLP