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In an era where artwork is increasingly influenced and even created by Artificial Intelligence (AI), Mexico’s Supreme Court (SCJN) has ruled that works generated exclusively by AI cannot be registered under the copyright regime. According to the ruling, authorship belongs solely to humans.  “This resolution establishes a legal precedent regarding AI and intellectual property in Mexico,” the Copyright National Institute (INDAUTOR) said on Aug. 28 in a statement on its official X account following the SCJN’s decision. The SCJN’s unanimous decision said that the Federal Copyright Law (LFDA) reserves authorship to humans , and that any creative invention generated exclusively by algorithms lacks a human author to whom moral rights can be attributed.   According to the Supreme Court , automated systems do not possess the necessary qualities of creativity, originality and individuality that are considered human attributes for authorship. “The SCJN resolved that copyright is a...

Monday, Sept. 1, is a landmark day in the history of Mexico’s judiciary, as hundreds of judges elected in the nation’s first-ever judicial elections will commence their new roles. Among the almost 900 new judges who start their duties today are nine Supreme Court justices elected by popular vote on June 1 . The nine new justices and 872 other judges and magistrates will be sworn in at a ceremony in the Senate on Monday night. The number of justices on the Supreme Court bench will thus decline from 11 to nine. Three of the nine incoming justices, Lenia Batres Guadarrama, Yasmin Esquivel Mossa and Loretta Ortiz Ahlf, served on the Supreme Court’s final 11-member bench. The other six justices who will be sworn in on Monday night, including incoming Chief Justice Hugo Aguilar Ortiz , have not previously served on the bench of the nation’s highest court. All of the nine people elected as justices on June 1 are affiliated with, seen as sympathetic to, or were at least tacitly supported...