On 2 March 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court declined a petition for certiorari in Thaler v. Perlmutter, which presented the question: “Whether works outputted by an AI system without a direct, traditional authorial contribution by a natural person can be copyrighted.”
A few days later, Professor Lea Bishop filed a motion for leave to file an amicus curiae brief in support of neither party, which was submitted out of time on March 8 2026.