The U.S. Supreme Court declined on March 2 to take up a case dealing with whether art created by artificial intelligence (AI) may be copyrighted under U.S. law.
The justices denied the petition in Thaler v. Perlmutter in an unsigned order. The court did not explain its decision. No justices dissented. The respondent, Shira Perlmutter, is the U.S. Register of Copyrights.
The petitioner, Stephen Thaler, a computer scientist from Missouri, sought a copyright registration in 2018 for “A Recent Entrance to Paradise,” an example of visual art he said his AI system called the Creativity Machine had created. The work depicts train tracks entering a portal, surrounded by what looks like purple and green plants….
Supreme Court Declines Case About Copyrights for Material Created by AI
