Computer scientist Stephen Thaler on Friday formally petitioned the US Supreme Court to decide whether creative works produced entirely by artificial intelligence can qualify for copyright protection. Thaler’s filing challenges the 2025 DC Circuit Court decision which reaffirmed that only works with human authorship are eligible for copyright under US law.

In his petition for certiorari , Thaler asks the supreme court to answer one question: Whether works outputted by an AI system without a direct, traditional authorial contribution by a natural person can be copyrighted. He argues that the DC appeal court and the US Copyright Office have imposed a “human authorship” rule not found in the Copyright Act itself, warning that this interpretation leaves a growing category of AI-genera

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