--- format: "aidr-story-markdown/v1" id: "ac14c9adbb03805e325a713a1300968d2394b3c1b237337dbaaba3a2fd5d4f2e" canonical_url: "https://aidr.today/ac14c9ad?lang=en" title: "Copyright does not protect AI-generated content in EU" lang: "en" requested_lang: "en" available_langs: ["en","vi"] translation_fallback: null fallback_fields: [] published_at: "2026-08-21T00:15:12.000Z" category: "Legal" topics: ["regulation","copyright","llm"] source_urls: ["https://mathstodon.xyz/@maxpool/117128107757895678","https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49382041"] summary: "Does copyright protect your AI-generated content in EU? Apparently not. Content that is entirely generated by artificial intelligence is not protected by copyright. EU copyright law has strictly human-centric foundation. Daniel J. Gervais: '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' https://euobserver.com/232898/interview-does-copyright-protect-your-ai-generated-content-in-europe-lets-find-out/ Gervais, Daniel J. and Shemtov, Noam and Marmanis, Haralambos and Zaller Rowland, Catherine, The Heart of the Matter: Copyright, AI Training, and LLMs (September 21, 2024). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4963711 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4963711 \"Munich Local Court has held that AI generated logos do not enjoy copyright protection. Neither mere prompting nor the selection between several AI suggestions is sufficient as a human creative contribution. For businesses, this is ambivalent. On the one hand, content generated…" --- # Copyright does not protect AI\-generated content in EU > [Open the canonical story]() **Published:** 2026-08-21T00:15:12.000Z **Category:** Legal **Topics:** regulation, copyright, llm ## Summary Does copyright protect your AI\-generated content in EU? Apparently not\. Content that is entirely generated by artificial intelligence is not protected by copyright\. EU copyright law has strictly human\-centric foundation\. Daniel J\. Gervais: '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' https://euobserver\.com/232898/interview\-does\-copyright\-protect\-your\-ai\-generated\-content\-in\-europe\-lets\-find\-out/ Gervais, Daniel J\. and Shemtov, Noam and Marmanis, Haralambos and Zaller Rowland, Catherine, The Heart of the Matter: Copyright, AI Training, and LLMs \(September 21, 2024\)\. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn\.com/abstract\=4963711 or http://dx\.doi\.org/10\.2139/ssrn\.4963711 "Munich Local Court has held that AI generated logos do not enjoy copyright protection\. Neither mere prompting nor the selection between several AI suggestions is sufficient as a human creative contribution\. For businesses, this is ambivalent\. On the one hand, content generated… ## Sources - [Story source]() - [Discussion]()