Tag: AI

In 2011, a British nature photographer named David Slater hauled his gear into a reserve on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi to shoot a troop of crested macaques. The animals were curious about the …

By now the headline is familiar: pure AI output has no human author, so under U.S. law nobody owns it. I've made that case in the overview, watched a federal appeals court confirm it, and watched the …

This is the last stop on a road I've been following since the overview and the appeals court ruling. On March 2, 2026, the Supreme Court denied certiorari in Thaler v. Perlmutter, declining to hear …

I've spent a fair amount of ink on this blog arguing that AI-generated code has no human author, and therefore no copyright. This post is the other side of that coin, and it's personal. Two of the …

A while back I argued that if an AI writes your code, probably nobody owns it, and that the question was still working its way through the courts. One of those courts has now answered. On March 18, …

Here's an uncomfortable question for every team leaning on AI to ship faster: if an AI wrote your code, who owns it? Under current U.S. law the honest answer is probably nobody, and that should bother …