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The Supreme Court won’t hear the AI copyright case, ending the last legal path to protect machine-made art

Ellsworth Toohey
Mar 03, 2026
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A Recent Entrance to Paradise. Image: Stephen Thaler / Creativity Machine

The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear Stephen Thaler’s case arguing that AI-generated artwork deserves copyright protection, according to The Verge. The decision leaves intact a chain of lower court rulings that all said the same thing: if a human didn’t make it, it can’t…

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