AI-Generated Content and Copyright (China) | Practical Law
A Practice Note providing an overview of the developing governance of AI-generated content (AIGC) and the emerging copyright-related issues associated with AIGC under the laws of China (PRC). The Note considers the subsistence of copyright in AIGC, copyright ownership, and potential copyright infringement issues arising when either training a generative AI model or generating AIGC. It also introduces a few notable Chinese copyright cases involving AIGC, including the Beijing Film Law Firm v Baidu case, the Shenzhen Tencent v Shanghai Yingxun case, the LI v LIU case, and the SCLA v AI Company case.