EU copyright law does not protect AI-generated content, experts say

EU copyright law does not protect content entirely generated by AI, according to legal experts and recent court rulings. Daniel J. Gervais, a copyright scholar, says putting your name on an AI-written article gives you liability, not copyright. A Munich court held that AI-generated logos lack protection, as mere prompting isn't a human creative contribution.

When you put your name on an article that's written by ChatGPT or Claude, you're basically putting a provenance mark on it saying: I take responsibility for this. I haven't written it, but I'm putting my name on it. That doesn't give you copyright, but it does give you liability for the content

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