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Who Owns an AI-Generated Film? What Thaler v. Perlmutter Means for Filmmakers
On March 2, 2026, the United States Supreme Court declined to hear Thaler v. Perlmutter. With that decision, or more precisely, with that refusal to decide, the legal question at the center of the AI and copyright debate was left exactly where the lower courts had placed it. AI cannot be an author under United States…