S.Š. v. TAUBEL LEGAL (AI image)

Protection of AI output

Can AI-generated work be protected?

Human authors only

An AI-generated image is not protected by copyright

Holding

A claimant who generated an image with a text-to-image model could not stop a law firm from using it: copyright requires the creative activity of a natural person, and a prompt is at most an unprotected idea. No appeal was filed.

In the Czech Republic, purely AI-generated images can be used freely by anyone.

Principles it bears on

• SupportsCopyright needs a human author; protection follows human creative input, not the machine.

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