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Policy2026-08-21 · source-backed
The requirement is that a work reflect a human author's free and creative choices, and neither mere prompting nor selection among several AI suggestions is sufficient. Reinforced by three recent German rulings and a Prague Municipal Court decision that an image from a general prompt isn't protectable. Hacker News 179 points, 192 comments, and the sharp developer question is that if wholly AI-generated code carries no copyright, GPL, MIT and BSD terms have nothing to attach to for those portions. The EU AI Act's disclosure provisions apply from August 2, 2026, which makes "specific indications" of AI generation easier to establish in court. I'm not a lawyer and this is unsettled, but if you maintain a copyleft project, it's worth a conversation with one.
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