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The appeals court required that a work initially be authored by a human. It did not decide constitutional questions or consider Thaler’s abandoned argument that he was the author.
What changed
The appeals court required that a work initially be authored by a human. It did not decide constitutional questions or consider Thaler’s abandoned argument that he was the author.
Limited to this application naming a machine as sole author and to the questions the court expressly addressed.
Editorial research question
Editorial interpretation: records institutional boundaries of human authorship as context for artistic disputes; the applicant is not classified as an anti-AI activist.
This is an editorial interpretation or question, separate from factual statements.
Evidence & sources
The appeals court required that a work initially be authored by a human. It did not decide constitutional questions or consider Thaler’s abandoned argument that he was the author.
SRC-0138Pages 1–3: case number, date, issues, and conclusion affirming refusal to register.
U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · EN · 2025-03-18
Case
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DOC-0126Thaler v. Perlmutter, No. 23-5233Cite this record
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