“Human authorship is a bedrock requirement of copyright.”
The Supreme Court declined to hear Stephen Thaler’s case arguing that his AI system DABUS should own the copyright to art it generated. The lower courts said no. The Copyright Office said no. Now the Supreme Court says it will not even bother looking at it. Human authorship remains the bedrock requirement. This is the right call. If a machine generates something with no human creative input, nobody owns it. The AI companies pushing for machine copyrights want to create a world where they own the output of every prompt. That door stays closed for now.