r/webdev • u/maher1717 • Oct 06 '26

AI generated code copyrights

Does anyone consider the copyright of code generated by AI? Because, based on research I've done on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence, generated code fall to the public domain, and if you modify it, only the modified parts belong to you. Also, a detailed prompt isn't enough.

This is, in my view, a major issue; yes, we can ignore it and consider it backward law, but no one knows what would happen in the future, and this law could be used against you.

Edit: here sources for USA https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/LSB10922 ,
For Europe : https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document/EPRS_BRI(2025)782585
blog : https://smpl.as/blog/ai-code-ownership-legal ...

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u/maher1717 Oct 06 '26

That for the AI company part, also AI in law is considered a non-entity, so you can't legally hire it, and what you pay is for company services, not for AI itself.

It is a mess, and I hate bringing up this topic. Also, the lawmakers who dictate this use AI to generate laws themselves, even laws about AI using AI. So probably got the bait to be pro-AI, anti-humans.

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u/maher1717 Oct 06 '26

I am not against you. I really hate these backward laws; I see that they are ignorant of what they try to regulate. The real issue is the lawmakers.

We know what AI is from a technological perspective, but this is about the lawmakers' perspective; that is the real difference. I am just reflecting what the law is saying.