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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 1. Whether works outputted by an AI system without a direct, traditional authorial contribution by a natural person can be copyrighted.
20-661 Christian Charles v. Jerry Seinfeld, et al. Second Circuit 2020-11-13 Denied Response Waived authorship authorship-claim circuit-split civil-procedure copyright-infringement copyright-ownership ownership-dispute statute-of-limitations work-for-hire The Second Circuit affirmed the district court's application of the limitations period in 17 U.S.C. §507 (b) to dismiss plaintiff Christian Charles's …