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A Video Game Lawyer Says Every One of Her Clients Now Writes Anti-AI Clauses Into Contracts
A games industry lawyer told GamesRadar that all of her clients include anti-AI provisions in their contracts, giving two reasons: gamer backlash and the fact that generative output is 'a copyright landmine,' with an expectation of lawsuits ahead. The remark echoes the Palworld developer's public position and hit HN on August 13. It's single-source commentary rather than survey data, but it's a concrete datapoint on contract-level AI exclusion in a creative industry — the mechanism by which 'audiences hate it' becomes a hard procurement constraint.
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