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The EU AI Act assigns responsibility by how a system is used, not how it is described. I keep coming back to its classification thresholds and the gaps that catch deployers first.
AI copyright and software IP
Memorised copyleft code in open-weight models and the obligations European Union law leaves undefined
The exposure open-weight adopters carry, and why ordinary open-source compliance was never designed to find it.
Is the model the infringement? Memorisation, reproduction and the weights of AI models under European Union law
Two Munich judgments have held that a trained model can be a reproduction of the works it memorised. This article defends that conclusion for European Union law, and argues the correct test is causal: a model contains a reproduction where the work in the output is best explained by encoding during training rather than by the prompt or the conventions of the genre.
Chardet: clean rooms, copyleft and the AI rewrite problem
What an AI-assisted rewrite of a small Python library reveals about the cost structure that copyleft has always depended on
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What the licence permits, what remains outside its scope, and what companies should check before adopting an OpenMDW model.
When does software become “AI”? The EU definition that catches businesses off guard
Most companies think they are not using AI. The EU AI Act may disagree. The legal definition captures systems that businesses use every day and excludes others that are marketed as AI.
The EU AI Act’s operator model: what every company needs to know before deploying AI
Under the EU AI Act, the line between "user" and "provider" depends on what you do with a system, not who built it. Companies that integrate, adapt, or fine-tune AI may acquire provider obligations without realising it.
Can copyright survive AI? The legal storm that’s changing everything
Generative AI has outpaced copyright doctrine. Courts in the US, China, UK, and EU are now deciding whether training on protected works is infringement, and whether AI output can be owned at all.
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