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Articles tagged "Copyright".
Whether AI-generated work gets copyright turns on human creative contribution; prompt-only output is hard to protect in Japan, the US, and the EU. Separate copyright from the service contract and from disclosure duties, with per-jurisdiction tests.
Read moreIf a contract is silent, the deliverable's copyright usually stays with the maker — "we paid for it" is not enough. The default rules, copyright-assignment clauses (work made for hire, the 17 U.S.C. §204(a) signed writing), moral rights, and USPTO/EUIPO trademark screening, for both the hired and the hiring side.
Read moreOnly a CDN-level block actually stops an AI-training crawler; robots.txt, X-Robots-Tag, and noai signal intent and leave a record. A four-layer defense stack, host-by-host setup, and where US fair-use and EU DSM litigation now stands.
Read moreA US/EU-focused guide: when you scrape — or let an AI fetch pages — sort your case into four legal lenses (CFAA, copyright/fair use, GDPR, contract) before you use the data. Covers hiQ, Meta v. Bright Data, the Ross/Bartz/Kadrey AI-training split, and Clearview.
Read moreA pre-ship rights check for US/EU developers: copyright exceptions (fair use, EU DSM Art. 4), AI-generated work (human authorship, the EU AI Act), and the four-tier OSS license spectrum.
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