Computer scientist Stephen Thaler has re-filed a petition with the US Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari to review the judgment of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia which confirmed that a work generated with artificial intelligence could not be copyrighted under US copyright law.
Thaler attempted to register a visual artAIwork created by AI with the US Copyright Office, but the Washington, DC-based organisation denied copyright protection for the work not once, ...

Members of the European Parliament’s Legal Affairs (JURI) Committee have received from a coalition of 13 organisations representing hundreds of thousands of creators from all over Europe a list of key priorities and recommendations to answer authors, performers, and other creative workers' concerns about AI and generative AI.
In a letter to MEPs, the organisations address what they perceive as shortcomings in the recent JURI draft report 'Copyright and generative AI – opportunities and challenge...

The Irish Government's Basic Income for the Arts (BIA) programme, guaranteeing a minimum income to qualifying creators, has been earmarked in the Budget 2026 as a permanent fixture, thanks to a €131 million increase to the €1.5bn budget allocated to the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport.
Under Budget 2026, 2,000 new places to be made available for the scheme. Participants in the scheme receive a weekly payment of €325. The scheme was launched as a pilot programme in 2022, with the ...