Tag: WhoOwnsTheCode

Who Owns the Monkey Selfie? Same Answer as Your AI Code

Aug 5, 2026 • 6 min read • Richard Hundhausen

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 …

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Which AI-Code Risk Persona Is Your Organization?

Jul 1, 2026 • 6 min read • Richard Hundhausen

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 …

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Can You Automate Copyright Registration From an Azure Pipeline?

Jun 26, 2026 • 4 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Short answer: not the whole thing, and you shouldn't want to. You can automate the tedious, deterministic part of registering your source code with the U.S. Copyright Office, but the filing itself …

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The Supreme Court Leaves the Human-Only Rule Standing

Mar 5, 2026 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

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 …

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Two of My Books Are in the Anthropic Settlement

Dec 9, 2025 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

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 …

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No Human, No Copyright: The Appeals Court Confirms It

Mar 21, 2025 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

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, …

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Who Owns the Code Your AI Just Wrote?

Jan 14, 2025 • 5 min read • Richard Hundhausen

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 …

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