The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear Stephen Thaler's case, upholding an earlier ruling that a machine cannot be a copyrighted author. Thaler's AI system, DABUS, generated *A Recent Entrance to Paradise* completely autonomously, but both the Copyright Office and the federal courts held that copyright requires human creativity. For filmmakers, a contrary ruling would grant tech companies massive rights to automatically generated content, while the gray area between human input and AI support remains legally unresolved and will be central to the copyright debate for years to come.