Insights

AI and copyright, open source, creators, startups, and common misconceptions.

AI is not a rights holder. Fully automatic output is unprotected. But the boundary of a human's "substantial creative contribution" is where the disputes will land.

Copyright, trademark or patent — which one

Three rights stop three different things. Choosing wrong is not less protection — it is no protection where you actually need it.

Computer programs are protected as literary works. An open-source licence is a conditional contract — breach the conditions and you lose the right to use at all.

Content creators and copyright

Covers, reactions, film reviews, background music, images from Google — the everyday situations creators face, and where the real legal line sits.

Startups and IP — the cheapest steps, most often skipped

Most startup IP problems come not from failing to register but from having no paperwork showing who owns what.

Works in the public domain — and the limits few people notice

The end of economic rights does not mean anything goes. Moral rights last indefinitely, and a new edition may carry its own layer of rights.