What makes an AI print design legally protectable
A raw prompt output carries no copyright, so a rival can clone your best seller legally. The human steps that turn a generation into a protectable design.
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Market dilution: the theory Kadrey left open
Meta won summary judgment on an expressly thin record while the court signalled that market-dilution evidence could change the result. This is unsettled.
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Pending AI training cases: a user's risk map
NYT v. OpenAI, the Disney and Warner suit against Midjourney, and the Anthropic lyrics cases are all in discovery. What a downstream user should infer.
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Prompts alone do not make you an author
A 400-word prompt is not more authorship than a four-word one. An audit of which of your contributions actually carry a copyright claim and which do not.
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Selection and arrangement copyright for AI edits
Individual generated clips carry no copyright, but the cut you built from them can. How to structure an edit so the human decisions carry the claim.
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Style imitation vs person imitation
Copying a style that reproduces no protected work is largely lawful in the US. Replicating a specific person's face or voice is where liability starts.
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The Thaler cert denial and human authorship
The Supreme Court declined Thaler v. Perlmutter on 2 March 2026, leaving the human-authorship rule standing. What that settles, and the four things it does not.
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The IP warranty carve-out for AI deliverables
You cannot assign copyright that never existed, so a blanket originality warranty may already be broken. Carve-out language that stays honest and still sells.
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The Ross appeal and AI training fair use
The Third Circuit heard Thomson Reuters v. Ross on 11 June 2026 and has not ruled. What the first US appellate word on AI training can and cannot settle.
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UK computer-generated works and generative AI
CDPA s.9(3) is the reason people assume the UK grants copyright in AI output. It is also untested against generative models, and betting on it is a gamble.
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The UK dropped its TDM opt-out plan
The March 2026 report abandoned the broad text-and-data-mining exception with rightsholder opt-out. Here is the UK status quo that actually applies now.
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What the Anthropic settlement did not decide
Final approval landed 20 July 2026, but a settlement creates no precedent. The ruling underneath it split lawful acquisition from training.
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When your AI ad has no copyright
A competitor is running your hero frame with their logo on it and you own nothing. The five levers that never depended on copyright, ranked by what works.
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