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Thaler v. Perlmutter, 130 F.4th 1039 (D.C. Cir. 2025)

Bibliographic Metadata

• Author or issuing body: United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
• Publication date: 2025-03-18
• Source type: Appellate court opinion (PDF)
• URL: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cadc.40231/gov.uscourts.cadc.40231.01208720945.0.pdf
• Archive URL: None recorded
• Access date: 2026-08-22

Reliability Notes

RECAP copy of the D.C. Circuit opinion in No. 23-5233. Primary appellate authority for the statutory human-authorship requirement as applied to a work the applicant identified as autonomously generated by AI. The court did not decide whether the Constitution independently requires human authorship, and it treated as waived Thaler’s later argument that he was the human author by directing the system.

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• CASE-THALER-V-PERLMUTTER
• TOPIC-AI-COPYRIGHT
• CASE-SPYDER-V-MEMENTUM
• TOPIC-BRAIN-ROT

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• Last verified: 2026-08-22
• Publication date: 2025-03-18
• Access date: 2026-08-22