Plain answers on who owns what you make with AI, what the law actually requires, and how to prove the work is yours.
The law is currently playing a game of catch-up with your hard drive. While you've been experimenting with prompts, courts have been busy deciding whether your output belongs to you or to the ether. E
July 18, 2026If you feed a machine enough copyrighted music, you eventually get a machine that sounds just like the artists who made the original tracks. That is the core of the current suno ai music copyright law
July 16, 2026The United States Copyright Office doesn't think a machine can be an author. If you type a prompt into Suno or Udio and wait for the computer to spit out a three-minute pop song, you're out of luck. T
July 14, 2026Copyright is automatic, but an unregistered copyright is almost impossible to enforce. Why you register, what it unlocks, and the current cost and timeline.
June 10, 2026After Zarya, after Theatre D'opera Spatial, after years of refusals making headlines, people assumed the Copyright Office had effectively closed the door on
June 8, 2026Article 50 of the EU AI Act demands AI transparency by August 2026. It is not a copyright authorship test. Why your enterprise needs both records.
June 8, 2026Most AI copyright fights are arguments about degree. How much did the human do? Was it enough? Thaler v. Perlmutter is not that kind of case. It's the one that
June 6, 2026C2PA proves where an asset came from. Copyrightable proves a human authored it. Two different questions, and why you probably want both.
June 6, 2026Jason Allen did the work. Nobody disputes that. To make Theatre D'opera Spatial he ran at least 624 prompt revisions through Midjourney, then took the result
June 4, 2026Cursor's been carrying half your codebase. Right before a funding round, a fair question: do you actually own this code? The honest answer.
June 4, 2026Strip away the noise. Here's exactly what the US Copyright Office requires to protect AI-assisted work, with the 2025 cases that back it up.
June 2, 2026The most useful AI copyright case isn't the one everyone calls a loss. It's the one where the Copyright Office said yes and no in the same letter. Kris
June 2, 2026You coaxed an image out of Midjourney over forty prompts. Can you stop someone from stealing it? The honest answer, grounded in copyright law.
May 31, 2026Publishers can reject your book for almost anything, including AI use. The deeper question is whether you can prove human authorship, and how to document it.
May 29, 2026You typed three words into Cursor and it wrote 200 lines. Do you own it? The honest answer, grounded in what the US Copyright Office actually requires.
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