
Your AI Content May Belong to No One
German courts now hold that AI output produced by prompts alone is not protected by copyright. For owners, that means a competitor can copy it freely.

German courts now hold that AI output produced by prompts alone is not protected by copyright. For owners, that means a competitor can copy it freely.

The EU delayed most of the AI Act in June 2026, but not Article 50. From 2 August 2026 your chatbots, AI content, and synthetic media must disclose the machine behind them.

From December 2026, EU law treats your software and AI as products under strict liability, and complexity no longer shields you. The court can presume the defect.

In Germany, almost any workplace AI now triggers works-council co-determination. Deploy without it and you risk an injunction, a forced rollback, and inadmissible evidence.

Disney and Paramount are going after ByteDance's Seedance over AI video that reproduces their characters. Why any company using generative AI now carries IP-infringement risk.

Major carriers are adding generative-AI exclusions to general liability, D&O, and E&O cover. The risk you adopted may no longer be insured. What boards should check now.
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