The procedural move — cert denied, no written opinion — preserves the human authorship requirement without creating new doctrine. For practitioners, this is the significant detail: the Court did not write a rule, it left existing circuit precedent standing. Stephen Thaler's argument — that the Copyright Office and lower courts impermissibly read a human authorship requirement into the statute — goes unaddressed on the merits. What the ruling establishes institutionally is a stable floor for the output question and a complete silence on the input question. The training data cases…