--- title: SCOTUS Declines to Hear LLM-Backed AI Case Regarding... description: SCOTUS declined to hear Thaler v. Perlmutter, a case where an AI system was listed as the sole author of an image for copyright registration purposes. The U.S.... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/scotus-declines-to-hear-llm-backed-ai-case-regarding-copyright-mdh1hhlqp twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: SCOTUS Declines to Hear LLM-Backed AI Case Regarding Copyright | daily.dev og:description: SCOTUS declined to hear Thaler v. Perlmutter, a case where an AI system was listed as the sole author of an image for copyright registration purposes. The U.S.... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/scotus-declines-to-hear-llm-backed-ai-case-regarding-copyright-mdh1hhlqp og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/mdh1HHlqp.png og:image:alt: SCOTUS Declines to Hear LLM-Backed AI Case Regarding Copyright og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # SCOTUS Declines to Hear LLM-Backed AI Case Regarding Copyright **[Software Freedom Conservancy](https://daily.dev/sources/sfconservancy)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary SCOTUS declined to hear Thaler v. Perlmutter, a case where an AI system was listed as the sole author of an image for copyright registration purposes. The U.S. Copyright Office and DC Circuit Court both rejected the registration, and SCOTUS' denial of certiorari leaves that ruling standing. The Software Freedom Conservancy urges the FOSS community not to panic: the ruling is narrowly scoped to cases where a computer program is identified as the sole author, and does not address copyright in prompts, LLM weights, training data, or human-modified AI outputs. The DC Circuit's own dicta suggests human authors who create, operate, or use AI tools can still hold copyright in resulting works. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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