The Final Word? Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Case on AI Authorship and Inventorship

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to weigh in on whether artificial intelligence (AI) can be an author under U.S. copyright law. On March 2, 2026, the Court denied certiorari in Thaler v. Perlmutter (Case No. 25-449) and turned away Dr. Stephen Thaler's years-long quest to secure copyright protection for a piece of visual art he says his AI system, DABUS, autonomously created.... By: Holland & Knight LLP