The office ruled that without "human authorship," the artwork was not eligible for copyright protection. This ruling was upheld in 2023 by the U.S. District Court and again last year by the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington. As lawmakers reaffirm that copyright can only be granted to work made by humans, leaving A.I.-generated outputs without protection.
President Trump announced Saturday that he plans to raise global tariffs from 10% to 15%. The move comes one day after the Supreme Court struck down the president's use of emergency powers to impose tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. After the ruling, the president claimed he had the authority to impose a global tariff using some sections of the Trade Act of 1974.
Eight months later, though, a six-justice majority of the court held that federal employment protections indeed protect trans people in the workplace. The basic logic of Justice Neil Gorsuch's majority opinion in Bostock, which Chief Justice John Roberts and the four liberals joined, is that if an employer treats a transgender man differently than it would treat a man assigned male at birth, the workplace is treating that trans man differently "because of sex."
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One of the two boys convicted of the murder of 14-year-old schoolgirl Ana Kriegel in Dublin seven years ago has been given more time to bring an appeal against his life sentence following a landmark Supreme Court decision. The youth known as Boy A was sentenced to life with a review after 12 years for murdering the 14-year-old. He was also sentenced to 12 years for an aggravated sexual assault on Ana, which runs alongside the murder sentence.