The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that AI-generated artwork cannot be copyrighted because it lacks human authorship, reaffirming that copyright law requires works to be created by humans. This decision follows a case involving Stephen Thaler's AI-generated artwork, which was denied copyright protection by the U.S. Copyright Office.
*effectively ruled. The SCOTUS declined to take the appeal, leaving in place the lower appeals court ruling.The ruling doesn't specifically include source code, but there's nothing in the ruling (or in copyright law) to suggest an exception for AI-generated source code. It sure sounds like chardet v7 is in the public domain from creation, and cannot be restricted by any license.
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