The Supreme Court’s Non-Decision on AI Copyright is the Decision

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear Stephen Thaler's appeal over whether AI-generated art can receive copyright protection. Thaler applied for a copyright in 2018 covering a visual work his AI system DABUS created autonomously. The Copyright Office rejected it. A federal judge upheld that decision. The D.C. Circuit affirmed it. Now, the Supreme Court has let the ruling stand. The legal chain is complete: no human author, no copyright. Continue Reading →

SCOTUS Reinterprets 1A, Too

The Supreme Court ruled Monday that a former Washington state high school football coach had a right to pray on the field immediately after games. We're going to talk about this, Elon Musk's pending purchase of Twitter, and what "Freedom of Speech" means under the new SCOTUS tonight, June 28 at 6:30 p.m. ET here in NYC at the Newhouse Advanced Media Lab Series event: What is Freedom of Speech? Continue Reading →