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“AI rights”? US Supreme Court won’t hear case arguing for patents to be issued to inventions made by AI

The plaintiff Stephen Thaler sought to have patents issued for inventions made by his Device for the Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience (DABUS) system but his applications to the US Patent and Trademark Office and the US Court of Appeals were rejected because US patent law allows for patents to be issued solely to human […]

Did Ed Sheeran Copy His Hit song, “Thinking Out Loud”?

Remember Ed Sheeran’s hit song “Thinking Out Loud” released in September 2014? It ranked No. 2 on the Hot 100 before winning Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance at the 58th Grammy Awards. Almost 10 years later, Ed Sheeran is now being taken to court for copyright infringement of the song “Let’s […]