The Supreme Court announced it denied the cert petition in its first AI-related case, Thaler v. Perlmutter. The Court granted no certs from its Friday conference.
It presents the question: “Whether works outputted by an AI system without a
direct, traditional authorial contribution by a natural person can be copyrighted.”
A bit of a surprise to me. The petition lasted longer than the patent case Thaler v. Vidal, after the Supreme Court asked the Solicitor General to respond to Thaler’s petition.
This would have been the first AI-related case for the Court. See my prior analysis: