Mexico Supreme Court decision on AI-only authorship registration
Amparo Directo 6/2025
rights policy item·court ruling·unknown
Mexico's Supreme Court denied protection for an autonomously AI-generated avatar because authorship under the LFDA requires a natural person.
Verified facts
| Official site | https://bj.scjn.gob.mx/documento/sentencias_pub/233157 ↗ |
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| Geography | Mexico |
| identifier | Amparo Directo 6/2025 |
| parties | Gerald García Báez; INDAUTOR |
| item type | court_ruling |
| confidence | high |
| identifier | Amparo Directo 6/2025 |
| filing date | 2025 |
| jurisdiction | Mexico |
| adoption date | 2025-07-03 |
| affected works | AI-generated visual and audiovisual works; potentially analogous musical works |
| current status | decided |
| effective date | unknown |
| affected models | unknown |
| canonical title | Mexico Supreme Court decision on AI-only authorship registration |
| confidence basis | Primary issuing-body source reviewed; procedural posture is separated from legal effect. |
| enforcement date | unknown |
| affected datasets | unknown |
| issuing authority | Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación |
| primary documents | https://bj.scjn.gob.mx/documento/sentencias_pub/233157 |
| unresolved questions | The threshold for protectable human contribution in mixed works was not fixed. |
| affected entity types | music creators; performers; rights holders; AI providers; platforms |
| affected organizations | Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación |
Current
| decided by | Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación |
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| reviewed registration decision of | Instituto Nacional del Derecho de Autor |
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