Comparative IP decisions
Decisions
A curated selection of the most significant decisions. Not an exhaustive database.
94 decisions19 jurisdictions71 courts12 offices11 acts59 policy papers
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| Type | Issue | Outcome | Citation | Status | |||
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| 2026-09-29 | Thomson Reuters v. Ross (appeal) U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit | United States | Court | Training data | No | Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH v. Ross Intelligence Inc. (3d Cir. 2026) | ●Current |
| 2026-09-16 | Doe v. GitHub (Copilot appeal) U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit | United States | Court | AI outputs | No | No. 24-7700 (9th Cir. Sept. 16, 2026) | ●Current |
| 2026-07-31 | GEMA v. Suno Landgericht München I (Regional Court) | Germany | Court | Training data | No | Case 42 O 763/25 (LG München I, 31 July 2026) | ◐Ongoing |
| 2026-07-24 | ANI v. OpenAI (interim order) Delhi High Court | India | Court | Training data | Yes | Delhi High Court, interim order of 24 Jul 2026 | ◐Ongoing |
| 2026-06-25 | Max Planck position statement on copyright and generative AI Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition (Drexl, Militsyna, Dagan) | Germany | Policy | Training data | Partly | GRUR International (2026), doi 10.1093/grurint/ikag093 | |
| 2026-05-13 | European Commission call for evidence on copyright and generative AI European Commission | European Union | Policy | Training data | No position | Ares(2026)4845636, 13 May 2026 | |
| 2026-04-24 | Tripp Trapp chair (Supreme Court) Supreme Court of Japan | Japan | Court | Design & copyright | No | Reiwa 7 (Ju) 356 | ●Current |
| 2026-04-23 | PACE Resolution 2654: Copyright enforcement in the AI environment Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe | International | Policy | Training data | Partly | Resolution 2654 (2026), adopted 23 April 2026 | |
| 2026-04-08 | Darcos bill: presumption of use of works by AI providers French Senate | France | Policy | Training data | Partly | Bill adopted unanimously by the Senate, 8 April 2026 | |
| 2026-03-18 | UK Report on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence UK Government (under the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025) | United Kingdom | Policy | Training data | No | Report under s 136 Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 | |
| 2026-03-11 | Taylor v. Killer Queen (Katie Perry v. Katy Perry) High Court of Australia | Australia | Court | Personal names | No | [2026] HCA 5 | ●Current |
| 2026-03-10 | European Parliament resolution on copyright and generative AI European Parliament (rapporteur Axel Voss) | European Union | Policy | Training data | Partly | P10_TA(2026)0066, 2025/2058(INI); adopted 460 to 71, 88 abstentions | |
| 2026-03-02 | Thaler v. Perlmutter (certiorari denied) U.S. Supreme Court | United States | Court | AI authorship | No position | No. 25-449 (cert. denied) | ●Current |
| 2026-02-13 | AI-generated logos case (Local Court Munich) Amtsgericht München (Local Court Munich) | Germany | Court | AI authorship | No | AG München, Endurteil v. 13.02.2026, 142 C 9786/25 | ●Current |
| 2026-02 | TRAIN Act U.S. Congress (Sen. Welch; bipartisan reintroduction 2026) | United States | Policy | Training data | Partly | S. 5379 (2024); reintroduced in House and Senate, February 2026 | |
| 2025-12-10 | Kneschke v. LAION (appeal) Oberlandesgericht Hamburg (Higher Regional Court) | Germany | Court | Training data | Yes | 5 U 104/24 | ◐Ongoing |
| 2025-12-08 | DPIIT working paper on generative AI and copyright (Part 1) Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, Government of India | India | Policy | Training data | Partly | DPIIT working paper, 8 December 2025 | |
| 2025-12-04 | WIPO information sessions on copyright and generative AI WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR/46, SCCR/47) | International | Policy | Training data | No position | SCCR/46 (10 Apr 2025) and SCCR/47 (4 Dec 2025) | |
| 2025-11-26 | USPTO revised inventorship guidance for AI-assisted inventions U.S. Patent and Trademark Office | United States | Office | AI inventorship | Partly | Revised Inventorship Guidance for AI-Assisted Inventions (November 2025), rescinding the February 2024 guidance | ●Current |
| 2025-11-11 | GEMA v. OpenAI Landgericht München I (Regional Court) | Germany | Court | AI outputs | Yes | LG München I, 42 O 14139/24 | ◐Ongoing |
| 2025-11-04 | Getty Images v. Stability AI High Court of England and Wales | United Kingdom | Court | Model as copy | No | [2025] EWHC 2863 (Ch) | ◐Ongoing |
| 2025-10-26 | Australia rules out a text and data mining exception Australian Government (Attorney-General) | Australia | Policy | Training data | No | Attorney-General media release, 26 October 2025 | |
| 2025-10 | Guadamuz: UK creatives should back AI training at home Andres Guadamuz (University of Sussex) | United Kingdom | Policy | Training data | Partly | Interview, TechRepublic, October 2025 | |
| 2025-09-16 | Zhou v. (Beijing Internet Court, 2025) Beijing Internet Court | China | Court | AI authorship | No | Beijing Internet Court, announced 16 Sep 2025 (upheld on appeal) | ●Current |
| 2025-09 | AIPPI Resolution Q295: Copyright and AI AIPPI World Congress, Yokohama | International | Policy | Training data | Partly | AIPPI Resolution Q295 (2025) | |
| 2025-07-31 | Spitz Park v. ECAD (AI-generated music) Court of Appeal of Santa Catarina, Brazil | Brazil | Court | AI outputs | Partly | Case No. 5032376-37.2025.8.24.0000 (TJSC, 31 July 2025) | ●Current |
| 2025-07-24 | EU AI Act: public summary of training content (Art. 53(1)(d)) European Union (AI Act), with the European Commission AI Office template | European Union | Act | Training transparency | Partly | Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, Art. 53(1)(d); Commission template of 24 July 2025 | ●Current |
| 2025-07-09 | European Parliament study: Generative AI and Copyright European Parliament, Policy Department (requested by the JURI Committee) | European Union | Policy | Training data | Partly | PE 774.095 | |
| 2025-07-02 | Amparo Directo 6/2025 (AI avatar) Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation of Mexico, Second Chamber | Mexico | Court | AI authorship | No | Amparo Directo 6/2025 (SCJN, 2 July 2025) | ●Current |
| 2025-06-26 | DABUS (Swiss Federal Administrative Court) Federal Administrative Court of Switzerland | Switzerland | Court | AI inventorship | Partly | Federal Administrative Court, judgment of 26 June 2025, B-2532/2024 | ●Current |
| 2025-06-25 | Kadrey v. Meta U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California | United States | Court | Training data | Yes | N.D. Cal., order of 25 Jun 2025 (Chhabria, J.) | ●Current |
| 2025-06-23 | Bartz v. Anthropic U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California | United States | Court | Training data | Partly | N.D. Cal., order of 23 Jun 2025 (Alsup, J.) | ●Current |
| 2025-05-09 | Copyright and AI, Part 3: Generative AI Training U.S. Copyright Office | United States | Policy | Training data | Partly | Pre-publication report, 9 May 2025 | |
| 2025-05 | The Development of Generative AI from a Copyright Perspective EUIPO (with the European Commission) | European Union | Policy | Training data | No position | EUIPO study, May 2025 | |
| 2025-05 | INTA foundational principles on AI and IP rights International Trademark Association (Board of Directors) | International | Policy | Training data | No position | INTA Board resolution, May 2025 | |
| 2025-04-23 | WIPO Conversation on IP and Frontier Technologies (11th session) World Intellectual Property Organization | International | Policy | Training data | No position | WIPO Conversation, 11th session, 23 to 24 April 2025 | |
| 2025-04-04 | New York Times v. Microsoft and OpenAI (motion to dismiss) U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York | United States | Court | AI outputs | No position | No. 1:23-cv-11195 (S.D.N.Y. Apr. 4, 2025) (Stein, J.) | ◐Ongoing |
| 2025-04-03 | Like Company v. Google (C-250/25, reference to the CJEU) Court of Justice of the EU (reference from the Budapest-környéki Törvényszék) | European Union | Court | AI outputs | No position | Case C-250/25, Like Company v Google Ireland | ◐Ongoing |
| 2025-04 | Navigating AI and copyright law in the UK: legal frontiers and emerging regulatory perspectives (book chapter) Zehra Özkan Üner (Ankara University) and Pınar Çağlayan Aksoy (Bilkent University) | Türkiye | Policy | AI authorship | No position | In Legal and Economic Perspectives on the Nexus of AI and Copyright, IGI Global 2025, pp. 49-70, doi:10.4018/979-8-3693-8704-7.ch003 | |
| 2025-03-18 | Thaler v. Perlmutter U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit | United States | Court | AI authorship | No | Thaler v. Perlmutter (D.C. Cir. 2025), affirming D.D.C. 2023 | ●Current |
| 2025-03-07 | Changshu 'half heart' case Changshu People's Court | China | Court | AI authorship | Yes | Changshu People's Court, announced 7 Mar 2025 | ●Current |
| 2025-03 | Zhangjiagang AI chair images case Zhangjiagang People's Court | China | Court | AI authorship | No | Zhangjiagang People's Court, March 2025 | ●Current |
| 2025-02-20 | AI, Copyright, and Productivity in the Creative Industries University of Cambridge (Minderoo Centre, Bennett Institute, ai@cam) | United Kingdom | Policy | Training data | No | Policy brief, 20 February 2025 | |
| 2025-02-11 | Thomson Reuters v. Ross Intelligence U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware | United States | Court | Training data | No | No. 1:20-cv-613 (D. Del. 2025) | ●Current |
| 2025-02-07 | Copyright and Generative AI: Opinion of the European Copyright Society European Copyright Society (Dusollier, Kretschmer, Margoni, Mezei, Quintais, Rognstad) | European Union | Policy | Training data | Partly | ECS Opinion, January 2025 (published 7 February 2025) | |
| 2025-01-30 | A Single Piece of American Cheese U.S. Copyright Office | United States | Office | AI authorship | Partly | U.S. Copyright Office registration, 30 Jan 2025 (Invoke) | ●Current |
| 2025-01-30 | DABUS (Intellectual Property High Court of Japan) Intellectual Property High Court of Japan | Japan | Court | AI inventorship | No | Reiwa 6 (Gyo-Ko) No. 10006, 30 January 2025 | ●Current |
| 2025-01-29 | Copyright and Artificial Intelligence, Part 2: Copyrightability U.S. Copyright Office | United States | Policy | AI authorship | Partly | U.S. Copyright Office, Copyright and Artificial Intelligence, Part 2 (January 2025) | |
| 2025-undefined | Generative AI, Copyright and the AI Act João Pedro Quintais (Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam) | Netherlands | Policy | Training data | Partly | Computer Law & Security Review (2025), art. 106107 | |
| 2025-undefined | The globalization of copyright exceptions for AI training Matthew Sag (Emory University) and Peter K. Yu (Texas A&M University) | United States | Policy | Training data | No position | 74 Emory Law Journal 1163 (2025) | |
| 2025-undefined | The Files are in the Computer: Copyright, Memorization, and Generative AI A. Feder Cooper and James Grimmelmann (Cornell University) | United States | Policy | Model as copy | Partly | Chicago-Kent Law Review, vol. 100 (2025); arXiv:2404.12590 | |
| 2025-undefined | Generative AI's illusory case for fair use Jacqueline C. Charlesworth (former General Counsel, U.S. Copyright Office) | United States | Policy | Training data | No | 26 Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law 323 (2025) | |
| 2024-12-31 | CNIPA guidelines for patent applications for AI-related inventions China National Intellectual Property Administration | China | Office | AI inventorship | Partly | Guidelines for Patent Applications for AI-Related Inventions (Trial Implementation), 31 December 2024 | ●Current |
| 2024-12-30 | Ultraman LoRA case (Xinchuanghua v. Shuimu) Hangzhou Intermediate People's Court | China | Court | AI outputs | Yes | Shanghai Xinchuanghua Cultural Development Co. v Hangzhou Shuimu Intelligent Technology Co. (second instance, 30 December 2024) | ●Current |
| 2024-12 | A study on the protection of AI-generated works, focusing on the degree of human involvement Chanhyeok Park and WooJung Jon (KAIST) | South Korea | Policy | AI authorship | Partly | Copyright Quarterly (Korea Copyright Commission), Winter 2024 | |
| 2024-10-30 | DPG Media v. HowardsHome Rechtbank Amsterdam (District Court of Amsterdam) | Netherlands | Court | Training data | Partly | DPG Media, Mediahuis v Knowledge Exchange (HowardsHome), Rb. Amsterdam 30 October 2024 | ◐Ongoing |
| 2024-10 | Infringing AI: liability for AI-generated outputs under international, EU and UK copyright law Eleonora Rosati (Stockholm University) | European Union | Policy | AI outputs | Partly | European Journal of Risk Regulation (2024), doi:10.1017/err.2024.72 (open access) | |
| 2024-09-27 | Kneschke v. LAION Landgericht Hamburg (Regional Court) | Germany | Court | Training data | Yes | 310 O 227/23 | ●Current |
| 2024-08-12 | Andersen v. Stability AI (motion to dismiss) U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California | United States | Court | AI outputs | No position | No. 3:23-cv-00201 (N.D. Cal. Aug. 12, 2024) (Orrick, J.) | ◐Ongoing |
| 2024-08-01 | EU AI Act European Parliament and Council | European Union | Act | Training data | Partly | Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 | ●Current |
| 2024-07-08 | Hong Kong consultation: text and data mining exception Commerce and Economic Development Bureau and Intellectual Property Department, Hong Kong SAR | Hong Kong | Policy | Training data | Partly | Public consultation paper on copyright and artificial intelligence, 8 July 2024 | |
| 2024-06-11 | DABUS (Federal Court of Justice) Bundesgerichtshof (German Federal Court of Justice) | Germany | Court | AI inventorship | Partly | BGH, Beschluss v. 11.06.2024, X ZB 5/22, ECLI:DE:BGH:2024:110624BXZB5.22.0 | ●Current |
| 2024-06-05 | Supermac's v. EUIPO (BIG MAC) General Court of the European Union | European Union | Court | Non-use | Yes | T-58/23 | ●Current |
| 2024-06 | How generative AI turns copyright law upside down Mark A. Lemley (Stanford Law School) | United States | Policy | AI authorship | Partly | 25 Columbia Science and Technology Law Review (2024), doi:10.52214/stlr.v25i2.12761 (open access) | |
| 2024-05-16 | DABUS (Seoul High Court) Seoul High Court | South Korea | Court | AI inventorship | No | Seoul High Court, 16 May 2024, affirming Seoul Administrative Court 2022GuHap89524 (2023) | ●Current |
| 2024-04 | Generative AI Copyright Disclosure Act U.S. House of Representatives (Rep. Schiff) | United States | Policy | Training transparency | Yes | H.R. 7913 (2024) | |
| 2024-03-15 | General Understanding on AI and Copyright Agency for Cultural Affairs (Legal Subcommittee) | Japan | Office | Training data | Partly | Agency for Cultural Affairs, 15 Mar 2024 | ●Current |
| 2024-02-17 | ALAI Resolution on artificial intelligence and copyright ALAI (Association Littéraire et Artistique Internationale), Executive Committee | International | Policy | Training data | Partly | ALAI Executive Committee resolution, Paris, 17 February 2024 | |
| 2024-02-08 | Ultraman case Guangzhou Internet Court | China | Court | AI outputs | Yes | Guangzhou Internet Court, judgment of 8 Feb 2024 | ●Current |
| 2024-01 | Canadian copyright in the age of generative AI (consultation submission) Michael Geist (University of Ottawa) | Canada | Policy | Training data | Partly | Submission to the Government of Canada's consultation on copyright and generative AI, January 2024 | |
| 2024-undefined | The Forgotten Creator: A Statutory Remuneration Right for Machine Learning Christophe Geiger and Vincenzo Iaia (LUISS Guido Carli University) | Italy | Policy | Training data | Partly | Computer Law & Security Review, vol. 52 (2024), 105925, doi:10.1016/j.clsr.2023.105925 | |
| 2024-undefined | Copyright and the training of generative AI models (Urheberrecht und Training generativer KI-Modelle) Tim W. Dornis (Leibniz University Hannover) and Sebastian Stober (University of Magdeburg) | Germany | Policy | Training data | No | Nomos, Recht und Digitalisierung vol. 19, 2024 (open access) | |
| 2024-undefined | California AB 2013: Generative AI Training Data Transparency Act California Legislature | California | Act | Training transparency | Partly | Cal. Assembly Bill 2013 (2024), in force 1 January 2026 | ●Current |
| 2023-12-20 | Thaler v. Comptroller-General (DABUS) UK Supreme Court | United Kingdom | Court | AI inventorship | No | [2023] UKSC 49 | ●Current |
| 2023-12-11 | SURYAST (Copyright Office Review Board) U.S. Copyright Office Review Board | United States | Office | AI authorship | No | Second request for reconsideration, SURYAST (11 December 2023) | ●Current |
| 2023-12 | Copyright guidelines on generative AI Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism / Korea Copyright Commission | South Korea | Office | AI authorship | Partly | Korean government AI copyright guidelines (2023, updated 2025) | ●Current |
| 2023-11-27 | Li v. Liu Beijing Internet Court | China | Court | AI authorship | Yes | (2023) Jing 0491 Min Chu No. 11279 | ●Current |
| 2023-11-20 | THJ Systems v. Sheridan Court of Appeal of England and Wales | United Kingdom | Court | Originality | Yes | [2023] EWCA Civ 1354 | ●Current |
| 2023-10-11 | S.Š. v. TAUBEL LEGAL (AI image) Municipal Court in Prague | Czech Republic | Court | AI authorship | No | Městský soud v Praze, judgment of 11 Oct 2023 | ●Current |
| 2023-10 | IPO comments on AI and copyright and on AI-assisted inventions Intellectual Property Owners Association (US) | United States | Policy | AI authorship | Partly | IPO comments to the U.S. Copyright Office (October 2023) and USPTO (May 2024) | |
| 2023-09-05 | Théâtre D'opéra Spatial (Copyright Office Review Board) U.S. Copyright Office Review Board | United States | Office | AI authorship | No | Second request for reconsideration, Théâtre D'opéra Spatial (5 September 2023) | ◐Ongoing |
| 2023-08-15 | Interim Measures for the Management of Generative AI Services Cyberspace Administration of China, with six other authorities | China | Act | Training data | No position | 生成式人工智能服务管理暂行办法 (Interim Measures), in force 15 August 2023, Art. 7 | ●Current |
| 2023-07-14 | Generative AI meets copyright Pamela Samuelson (UC Berkeley School of Law) | United States | Policy | Training data | Partly | Science, vol. 381, issue 6654, pp. 158 to 161 (2023) | |
| 2023-06-08 | Jack Daniel's v. VIP Products U.S. Supreme Court | United States | Court | Parody | Partly | 599 U.S. 140 (2023) | ●Current |
| 2023-05-18 | Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith U.S. Supreme Court | United States | Court | Remix & reuse | No | 598 U.S. 508 (2023) | ●Current |
| 2023-05-04 | Griffin v. Sheeran (Thinking Out Loud) U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (jury) | United States | Court | Samples & melodies | No | S.D.N.Y. jury verdict, 4 May 2023 | ●Current |
| 2023-05 | FICPI comments on AI and inventorship FICPI (International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys) | International | Policy | AI inventorship | Partly | FICPI comments to the USPTO, May 2023 | |
| 2023-02-21 | Zarya of the Dawn U.S. Copyright Office | United States | Office | AI authorship | Partly | U.S. Copyright Office decision letter, 21 Feb 2023 | ●Current |
| 2023-02-08 | Hermès v. Rothschild (MetaBirkins) U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (jury) | United States | Court | Parody | No | No. 1:22-cv-00384 (S.D.N.Y.) | ◐Ongoing |
| 2023-01-01 | Law on Copyright and Related Rights, Article 33 (sui generis right for AI output) Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine | Ukraine | Act | AI authorship | Yes | Law of Ukraine No. 2811-IX of 1 December 2022, Art. 33, in force 1 January 2023 | ●Current |
| 2023-undefined | Generative AI and Author Remuneration Martin Senftleben (Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam) | Netherlands | Policy | Training data | Partly | IIC 54 (2023), pp. 1535 to 1560 | |
| 2023-undefined | Copyright safety for generative AI Matthew Sag (Emory University School of Law) | United States | Policy | Training data | Partly | 61 Houston Law Review 295 (2023); SSRN 4438593 | |
| 2023-undefined | Prompting progress: authorship in the age of AI Edward Lee (Chicago-Kent College of Law) | United States | Policy | AI authorship | Partly | SSRN 4609687 (2023) | |
| 2023-undefined | Foundation models and fair use Peter Henderson, Xuechen Li, Dan Jurafsky, Tatsunori Hashimoto, Mark A. Lemley and Percy Liang (Stanford University) | United States | Policy | AI outputs | Partly | SSRN 4404340 (2023); Journal of Machine Learning Research 24 (2023) | |
| 2022-12 | Artificial Intelligence, Design Law and Fashion (book) Hasan Kadir Yılmaztekin (Justice Academy of Türkiye) | Türkiye | Policy | AI authorship | No position | Hasan Kadir Yılmaztekin, Artificial Intelligence, Design Law and Fashion, Routledge Research in Fashion Law, Routledge 2023 | |
| 2022-08-05 | Thaler v. Vidal (DABUS) U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit | United States | Court | AI inventorship | No | 43 F.4th 1207 (Fed. Cir. 2022) | ●Current |
| 2022-04-13 | Commissioner of Patents v. Thaler (DABUS) Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia | Australia | Court | AI inventorship | No | Commissioner of Patents v Thaler [2022] FCAFC 62 | ●Current |
| 2022-04-06 | Sheeran v. Chokri (Shape of You) High Court of England and Wales | United Kingdom | Court | Samples & melodies | No | [2022] EWHC 827 (Ch) | ●Current |
| 2022-undefined | A deeper look into the EU text and data mining exceptions: harmonisation, data ownership, and the future of technology Thomas Margoni (KU Leuven) and Martin Kretschmer (University of Glasgow, CREATe) | United Kingdom | Policy | Training data | Yes | 71 GRUR International 685 (2022), doi:10.1093/grurint/ikac054 (open access) | |
| 2021-12-21 | DABUS (J 8/20) European Patent Office, Legal Board of Appeal | European Patent Organisation | Office | AI inventorship | No | J 8/20 and J 9/20 | ●Current |
| 2021-11-21 | Copyright Act 2021, section 244 (computational data analysis) Parliament of Singapore | Singapore | Act | Training data | Yes | Copyright Act 2021 (Singapore), ss 243 to 244, with s 187 (contract override) | ●Current |
| 2021-07 | DABUS patent grant Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC) | South Africa | Office | AI inventorship | Yes | ZA 2021/03242 | ●Current |
| 2021-undefined | Fair Learning Mark A. Lemley and Bryan Casey (Stanford Law School) | United States | Policy | Training data | Yes | Texas Law Review, vol. 99 (2021) | |
| 2021-undefined | Lawful use of data in machine learning-based AI under Turkish law (doctoral thesis) Osman Gazi Güçlütürk (Galatasaray University) | Türkiye | Policy | Training data | Yes | Türk hukukunda makine öğrenmesine dayalı yapay zekada verinin hukuka uygun şekilde kullanılması, PhD thesis, Galatasaray University, 2021 (YÖK thesis no. 702185) | |
| 2021-undefined | Copyright and artificial creation: does EU copyright law protect AI-assisted output? P. Bernt Hugenholtz and João Pedro Quintais (Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam) | European Union | Policy | AI authorship | Partly | 52 IIC 1190 (2021), doi:10.1007/s40319-021-01115-0 | |
| 2021-undefined | The death of the AI author Carys Craig (Osgoode Hall Law School) and Ian Kerr (University of Ottawa) | Canada | Policy | AI authorship | No | 52(1) Ottawa Law Review 33 (2021) | |
| 2021-undefined | The flexible copyright exception for 'non-enjoyment' purposes: recent amendment in Japan and its implication Tatsuhiro Ueno (Waseda University) | Japan | Policy | Training data | Yes | 70 GRUR International 145 (2021), doi:10.1093/grurint/ikaa184 | |
| 2020-10-14 | AIPPI Resolution Q272: Inventorship of inventions made using AI AIPPI World Congress (online) | International | Policy | AI inventorship | Partly | AIPPI Resolution Q272 (2020) | |
| 2020-09-17 | Messi v. EUIPO Court of Justice of the European Union | European Union | Court | Personal names | Yes | C-449/18 P and C-474/18 P | ●Current |
| 2020-06-11 | Brompton Bicycle v. Chedech/Get2Get Court of Justice of the European Union | European Union | Court | Design & copyright | Partly | C-833/18 | ●Current |
| 2020-01-13 | AIPLA comments on IP protection for AI innovation American Intellectual Property Law Association | United States | Policy | Training data | Partly | AIPLA comments to the USPTO, 13 January 2020 | |
| 2020-undefined | AI as Producer and Consumer of Copyright Works Enrico Bonadio and Luke McDonagh (City St George's, University of London) | United Kingdom | Policy | AI authorship | Partly | Intellectual Property Quarterly 2020(2), pp. 112 to 137 | |
| 2020-undefined | The machine as author Daniel J. Gervais (Vanderbilt Law School) | United States | Policy | AI authorship | No | 105 Iowa Law Review 2053 (2020) | |
| 2020-undefined | 'AI-generated inventions': time to get the record straight? Daria Kim (Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition) | Germany | Policy | AI inventorship | No | 69 GRUR International 443 (2020), doi:10.1093/grurint/ikaa061 | |
| 2020-undefined | Implementing user rights for research in the field of artificial intelligence: a call for international action Sean Flynn, Christophe Geiger, João Pedro Quintais, Thomas Margoni, Matthew Sag, Lucie Guibault and Michael Carroll | International | Policy | Training data | Partly | 42 European Intellectual Property Review 393 (2020) | |
| 2019-12 | Tencent v. Yingxun (Dreamwriter) Shenzhen Nanshan District People's Court | China | Court | AI authorship | Yes | Shenzhen Nanshan District People's Court (December 2019) | ●Current |
| 2019-09-12 | Cofemel v. G-Star Raw Court of Justice of the European Union | European Union | Court | Design & copyright | Yes | C-683/17 | ●Current |
| 2019-09 | AIPPI Resolution: Copyright in artificially generated works AIPPI World Congress, London | International | Policy | AI authorship | Partly | AIPPI Resolution, World Congress London, adopted 18 September 2019 | |
| 2019-07-29 | Pelham v. Hütter (Kraftwerk sample) Court of Justice of the European Union | European Union | Court | Samples & melodies | Partly | C-476/17 | ●Current |
| 2019-07-29 | Funke Medien v. Germany Court of Justice of the European Union | European Union | Court | Remix & reuse | No | C-469/17 | ●Current |
| 2019-04-25 | Feilin v. Baidu Beijing Internet Court | China | Court | AI authorship | No | Beijing Feilin Law Firm v Baidu, (2019) Jing 0491 Min Chu No. 239 (25 April 2019) | ●Current |
| 2019-04-17 | DSM Directive, Articles 3-4 European Parliament and Council | European Union | Act | Training data | Partly | Directive (EU) 2019/790 | ●Current |
| 2019-01-11 | Supermac's v. McDonald's (BIG MAC) EUIPO Cancellation Division | European Union | Office | Non-use | Yes | EUIPO Cancellation Division decision, 11 Jan 2019 | ✕Narrowed |
| 2019-01-01 | Copyright Act, Article 30-4 National Diet of Japan | Japan | Act | Training data | Yes | Copyright Act Art. 30-4 (2018 amendment) | ●Current |
| 2019-undefined | Authors and Machines Jane C. Ginsburg and Luke Ali Budiardjo (Columbia Law School) | United States | Policy | AI authorship | Partly | Berkeley Technology Law Journal, vol. 34, p. 343 (2019) | |
| 2019-undefined | AI and intellectual property: towards an articulated public domain Mauritz Kop (Stanford Law School, Transatlantic Technology Law Forum) | United States | Policy | AI authorship | No | SSRN 3409715 (2019) | |
| 2018-08-07 | Land Nordrhein-Westfalen v. Renckhoff Court of Justice of the European Union | European Union | Court | Reposting online | No | C-161/17 | ●Current |
| 2018-07-25 | Mondelez v. Nestlé (KitKat shape) Court of Justice of the European Union | European Union | Court | Colour & shape marks | Partly | C-84/17 P | ●Current |
| 2018-06-12 | Louboutin v. Van Haren Court of Justice of the European Union | European Union | Court | Colour & shape marks | Yes | C-163/16 | ●Current |
| 2018-04-23 | Naruto v. Slater (monkey selfie) U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit | United States | Court | Non-human authors | No | 888 F.3d 418 (9th Cir. 2018) | ●Current |
| 2018-02-15 | Goldman v. Breitbart (embedded tweet) U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York | United States | Court | Reposting online | No | 302 F. Supp. 3d 585 (S.D.N.Y. 2018) | ●Current |
| 2017-03-22 | Star Athletica v. Varsity Brands U.S. Supreme Court | United States | Court | Design & copyright | Partly | 580 U.S. 405 (2017) | ●Current |
| 2017-03-01 | First colour-only trademarks (Tombow MONO, 7-Eleven) Japan Patent Office | Japan | Office | Colour & shape marks | Yes | JPO registrations announced 1 Mar 2017 | ●Current |
| 2016-12-08 | Michael Jordan v. Qiaodan Sports Supreme People's Court of China | China | Court | Personal names | Partly | Supreme People's Court, judgments of 8 Dec 2016 | ●Current |
| 2016-09-08 | GS Media v. Sanoma (Playboy photos) Court of Justice of the European Union | European Union | Court | Reposting online | Partly | C-160/15 | ●Current |
| 2016-undefined | I think, therefore I invent: creative computers and the future of patent law Ryan Abbott (University of Surrey) | United Kingdom | Policy | AI inventorship | Yes | 57 Boston College Law Review 1079 (2016) | |
| 2015-04-14 | Stokke v. Katoji (Tripp Trapp chair) IP High Court of Japan | Japan | Court | Design & copyright | Yes | Case 2014 (Ne) 10063 | ✕Narrowed |
| 2014-10-01 | CDPA 1988, section 30A: caricature, parody or pastiche UK Parliament | United Kingdom | Act | Remix & reuse | Partly | Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, s 30A | ●Current |
| 2014-09-03 | Deckmyn v. Vandersteen (parody) Court of Justice of the European Union | European Union | Court | Remix & reuse | Partly | C-201/13 | ●Current |
| 2014-06-19 | Karen Millen v. Dunnes Stores Court of Justice of the European Union | European Union | Court | Unregistered design | Yes | C-345/13 | ●Current |
| 2014-06-01 | CDPA section 29A (text and data analysis for non-commercial research) UK Parliament | United Kingdom | Act | Training data | Partly | Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, s 29A (inserted 2014) | ●Current |
| 2014-02-13 | Svensson v. Retriever Sverige Court of Justice of the European Union | European Union | Court | Reposting online | Partly | C-466/12 | ●Current |
| 2013-10-04 | Société des Produits Nestlé v. Cadbury (purple) Court of Appeal of England and Wales | United Kingdom | Court | Colour & shape marks | No | [2013] EWCA Civ 1174 | ●Current |
| 2012-09-05 | Christian Louboutin v. Yves Saint Laurent U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit | United States | Court | Colour & shape marks | Partly | 696 F.3d 206 (2d Cir. 2012) | ●Current |
| 2012-undefined | Coding creativity: copyright and the artificially intelligent author Annemarie Bridy (University of Idaho) | United States | Policy | AI authorship | Yes | 2012 Stanford Technology Law Review 5 | |
| 2011-12-01 | Painer v. Standard Verlags Court of Justice of the European Union | European Union | Court | Non-human authors | No | C-145/10 | ●Current |
| 2011-07-27 | Lucasfilm v. Ainsworth (Stormtrooper helmet) UK Supreme Court | United Kingdom | Court | Design & copyright | No | [2011] UKSC 39 | ●Current |
| 2010-09-14 | Lego Juris v. OHIM (Lego brick) Court of Justice of the European Union | European Union | Court | Colour & shape marks | No | C-48/09 P | ●Current |
| 2009-07-16 | Infopaq v. Danske Dagblades Forening Court of Justice of the European Union | European Union | Court | Originality | Yes | C-5/08 | ●Current |
| 2007-12-03 | Perfect 10 v. Amazon (server test) U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit | United States | Court | Reposting online | Yes | 508 F.3d 1146 (9th Cir. 2007) | ●Current |
| 1995-03-28 | Qualitex v. Jacobson Products U.S. Supreme Court | United States | Court | Colour & shape marks | Yes | 514 U.S. 159 (1995) | ●Current |
| 1991-03-27 | Feist Publications v. Rural Telephone U.S. Supreme Court | United States | Court | Originality | No | 499 U.S. 340 (1991) | ●Current |
| 1988-11-15 | CDPA 1988, section 9(3): computer-generated works UK Parliament | United Kingdom | Act | AI authorship | Yes | Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, s 9(3) | ●Current |