Authorship – Chat GPT Is Eating the World

Have businesses, AI engineers finally stopped boasting about their 100% vibe coded computer programs?

Ivan Moreno just published an article in Law360 (paywalled) Tech’a AI Coding Boom on Collision Course with Copyright. Moreno discusses my essay Vibe Coding Authorship, forthcoming in the UCLA Law Review Discourse. My essay analyzes the problem created by the growing phenomenon that AI engineers and businesses are boasting about how their computer programs are…
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Will Anthropic stop boasting its “100% vibe coded” computer programs after sending DMCA notices seeking takedown of copies of leaked source code for Claude. Any “100% vibe-coded” program might not be copyrightable

Anthropic found itself in another controversy. But this one, unlike the dispute with the U.S. Department of War, was self-inflicted. On March 31, Anthropic inadvertently disseminated the entire source code for Claude Code (but not its underlying model) — all 512,000 lines of code — as a source map file included with Anthropic’s 2.1.88 of…
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Hachette Book Group shelves “Shy Girl” horror novel after suspecting it is AI-generated

A horror story turned into a nightmare for Hachette Book Group. After rabid Internet sleuths surmised that a recent horror novel “Shy Girl” by Mia Ballard contained large portions that were AI-generated, Hachette reportedly did its own investigation and decided to pull the book from shelves in UK and online–and to nix the planned publication…
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Supreme Court denies cert in Thaler v. Perlmutter. Declines to hear 1st AI-related case.

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 adirect, traditional authorial contribution by a natural person can be copyrighted.” A bit of a surprise to…
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There’s a good chance the Supreme Court grants cert in its 1st AI case, Thaler v. Perlmutter. Issue involves authorship.

The Supreme Court has distributed the cert petition in Thaler v. Perlmutter for its upcoming conference in two weeks, on Feb. 27, 2026. The Question Presented: “Whether works outputted by an artificial intelligence (AI) system without a direct, traditional authorial contribution by a natural person can be copyrighted.” While many Supreme Court watchers might not…
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WSJ Op-Ed by Brian J. Gross: AI Is a Gift to Human Creativity

Interesting to see an Op-Ed published by the Wall Street Journal addressing the controversial issue of AI-generated works and creativity. Brian J. Gross provocatively writes: “The fear that AI-assisted art is somehow ‘less human’ rests on a false binary—modernity vs. meaning, algorithms vs. imagination. Artists have always been open to using the most advanced tools,…
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Jason Allen hires Ryan Abbott in case v. Copyright Office on prompt-engineered visual work

Ryan Abbott, who represented Stephen Thaler in Thaler v. Perlmutter, is now representing the artist Jason Allen in his case against Shira Perlmutter, the Register of Copyrights. Allen is seeking a declaratory judgment that the Copyright Office’s refusal to allow a copyright registration for Allen’s prompt-engineered visual work was wrong as a matter of law.…
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Changshu People’s Court in China recognizes human creator was author of image generated thru prompts on Midjourney and edits on Photoshop

Similar to the decision of the Beijing Internet Court, the Changshu People’s Court recently found an image a person generated through a series of prompts on Midjourney with some editing on Photoshop qualified as a work of authorship under China’s copyright law. (More from Technology’s Legal Edge.) Hu Yue, Deputy Director of the court’s Intellectual…
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U.S. Copyright Office allows registration of computer programs w/ AI-generated source code excluded

The U.S. Copyright Office continues to allow the registrations of works with some AI-generated elements excluded. Today, we canvassed the Copyright Office’s treatment of computer programs. Just last November, Google CEO Sundar Pichai revealed that 25% of the company’s new code in its its programs is written by AI. That percentage is only likely to…
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US Copyright Office allows registration of AI-generated video based on editing of AI generated video, music

The U.S. Copyright Office recently allowed the registration of an AI-generated video with AI-generated music based on the editing of the AI-generated elements. The work is titled “Film clip for song Just Like In A Movie (SNEAK PREVIEW)” by Andrew John King. King wrote the lyrics for the song, with the music AI-generated, and then…
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