Read along with me if you like!
I'm working rn on a blog post re: the recent decision by Supreme Court of the USA (#SCOTUS)'s decision yesterday to deny certiorari in *Thaler v. Perlmutter*, which is a federal case in the DC circuit about whether the author/prompter of an #AI system can claim #copyright on a work that system generates.
As prep, I'm rereading the DC Circuit ruling (which now stands):
https://media.cadc.uscourts.gov/opinions/docs/2025/03/23-5233.pdf
I'll post some “quick takes” in this thread.
🥳 It took DC Circuit to ␌18, but they said it:
> “But [#SCOTUS] has long held[:] copyright law is intended to benefit the public, not authors. #Copyright … “makes reward to… owner[s] a secondary consideration: ‘[T]he…object in conferring the monopoly lie[s] in the general benefits derived by the public from…authors.’” [USA] v. Loew’s, Inc.…(1962) (quoting Fox Film Co. v. Doyal…(1932)).”
Yes, indeed — the Public. The General Public! Where do I know that phrase from? 🤔
"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;"
