After Thaler case, human authorship remains the condition for copyright protection in the US
According to the summaries, the US Supreme Court declined in May 2026 to hear the appeal in Thaler v. Perlmutter, leaving the federal appeals court decision in place. Copyright protection for AI-assisted works remains tied to human authorship.
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