Chinese and English archive texts include AI-assisted translations, not independently human-reviewed. Consult the original-language sources alongside them.
Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.
The start date is only the earliest event collected in this batch; it does not assert that the controversy began that day.
Case chronology
Copyright Office Review Board upholds refusal to register
The Review Board upheld the refusal to register the two-dimensional artwork.
Court of appeals upholds refusal to register
The appeals court required that a work initially be authored by a human. It did not decide constitutional questions or consider Thaler’s abandoned argument that he was the author.
Supreme Court declines Thaler’s petition
The Supreme Court docket records denial of the petition for a writ of certiorari.
Research question
Records institutional boundaries of human authorship as context for artistic disputes; the applicant is not classified as an anti-AI activist.
Related documents
DOC-0125Second Request for Reconsideration: A Recent Entrance to ParadiseDOC-0126Thaler v. Perlmutter, No. 23-5233DOC-0127Docket No. 25-449: Stephen Thaler v. Shira PerlmutterSources
U.S. Copyright Office · EN · 2022-02-14
U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · EN · 2025-03-18
Supreme Court of the United States · EN · Date unknown
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ANTI-AI ARCHIVE. “Thaler / A Recent Entrance to Paradise: institutional context of human-authorship requirements.” case-0086. Include this page’s URL and your access date when citing.