AI As An Author – “Creativity Machine” Creator Asks Supreme Court to Reconsider Authorship Requirements

On October 9, 2025, Dr. Stephen Thaler and team submitted a petition for writ of certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court asking “[w]hether works outputted by an AI system without a direct, traditional authorial contribution by a natural person can be copyrighted.” This petition follows a series of denials – first by the Copyright Office, then by the D.C. District Court, and most recently by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals – which found that a purely artificial intelligence (“AI”) generated work…
By: Baker Botts L.L.P.