creative-works
4 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-449 | Stephen Thaler v. Shira Perlmutter, Register of Copyrights and Director of the United States Copyright Office, et al. | District of Columbia | 2025-10-14 | Pending | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | ai-generated-works artificial-intelligence authorship copyright-law creative-works intellectual-property | Whether works outputted by an AI system without a direct, traditional authorial contribution by a natural person can be copyrighted |
| 25A82 | Stephen Thaler v. Shira Perlmutter, Register of Copyrights and Director of the United States Copyright Office, et al. | District of Columbia | 2025-07-21 | Presumed Complete | ai-authorship copyright-office copyright-protection creative-works intellectual-property machine-generated-work | Whether an artificial intelligence system can be recognized as a valid copyright author under U.S. intellectual property law | |
| 24-6425 | Cameron Cates v. Jared Shlemovitz, dba Junto Sounds, et al. | Second Circuit | 2025-01-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | copyright-law creative-works judicial-interpretation legal-petition procedural-fairness public-domain | How is it that, according to the Second Circuit, 'all on the common wellspring that is the creative works draw public domain,'? What good is copyright… |
| 23A958 | Ronald Ragan, Jr. v. Berkshire Hathaway Automotive, Inc. | Eighth Circuit | 2024-04-25 | Presumed Complete | blank-form-rule circuit-split copyright-law copyrightability creative-works feist-standard | Whether the Copyright Act and Supreme Court precedent permit copyright protection for functional forms and documents with minimal creative elements, r… |