On March 18, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (the “D.C. Circuit”) ruled in Thaler v. Perlmutter, affirming that works created solely by artificial ...

“Nor, for that matter, does the panel anywhere acknowledge the potentially momentous implications of its view that the entire federal copyright system is administered by an officer of the Legislative ...

Last fall, I noticed that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit had redesigned portions of its website, creating a new opinions portal. Alas, as I noted at the time, the new portal actually ...

Confirming the position of the Copyright Office and past precedent considering the possibility of non-human authors, the D.C. Circuit held this week that the ...