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Film director Martin Scorsese uses AI to storyboard movies. Becomes advisor to AI company Black Forest Labs.

Martin Scorsese just shook up Hollywood. Not with his latest film but with embracing of the use of AI as a tool. He’s even joined the German AI company Black Forest Labs as an advisor. In the video below, he explains how he uses AI to storyboard films and to help others visualize his ideas…
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Google claims its AI agents using Gemini 3.5 Flash created a decent operating system by “a single prompt” alone. But does it fail to qualify for copyright then?

One of the most fascinating developments in Silicon Valley is the extent to which AI companies are publicly boasting that they used AI agents to generate “100 percent” of the source code for a computer program. In their view, the boast is better if humans did practically nothing. And AI did it all! I’ve written…
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Is Claude killing Anthropic’s copyrights?

I continue to be most surprised by how publicly Anthropic is boasting about how Claude Code is writing all lines of computer code at Anthropic. Here’s Claude Code head Boris Cherny recently stating: We use Claude for literally everything. There’s no more manually written code anywhere at the company [Anthropic]. All of the SQL is…
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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…
Read more: 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
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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