So you typed “a cat smoking a pipe in Van Gogh’s style” into your favorite AI tool, cool flex, but don’t try to copyright it. In this episode, host Emily Laird is slicing into the meat of the AI copyright mess: who owns AI-generated content, what the U.S. Copyright Office actually said about it, and why your clever prompt won’t get you a ribbon (or royalties). From the lawsuits piling up like week-old takeout to GitHub Copilot's DMCA drama, we’re breaking down the legal food fight between artists, authors, and the tech giants who trained their machines on oceans of human-made work.

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