AI and Digital Assets

There is no automatic answer, which is precisely the risk. Rights over AI-assisted output are not settled by the tool: they have to be allocated by contract between the developer, the user and any commissioning party, and the position interacts with how much human input shaped the result. We address this through clear contractual allocation, chain-of-title and exploitation-rights clauses, rather than assuming ownership exists by default.

In the EU, copyright protects creations that reflect a human author’s own intellectual choices, so output produced with little or no human creative input carries a real authorship risk and may not be protectable as such. The practical answer is to document the human contribution and to secure the value contractually, so that what you rely on does not depend solely on whether the raw output qualifies for copyright.

The EU AI Act is the Union’s regulation of artificial intelligence, applying on a phased timeline. It is primarily a product-safety and governance framework rather than an IP statute, but it intersects with intellectual property in areas such as transparency about AI-generated content and the data used to train models. We advise where those obligations meet your IP position, coordinating with the wider META Channel Corporation regulatory practice.

In the EU, the text and data mining provisions of Directive 2019/790 allow mining in defined circumstances, but rightholders can reserve their works from commercial mining through an opt-out, and database rights may also apply. Whether a given dataset is safe to use depends on its sources and on any reservations attached to them. We review training datasets and the rights position before the model is built.

Generally not. Buying an NFT transfers the token, not the copyright in the work it points to; copyright passes only if it is expressly licensed or assigned in writing. The rights a buyer actually receives depend entirely on the terms attached to the token. We structure tokenised assets so the intellectual property terms, the smart contract and the enforcement mechanisms are aligned and say what the parties intend.

By addressing it expressly, rather than leaving it to a default that may not exist. The contract should allocate rights and risk between developer, user and commissioning party, establish the chain of title, and define exploitation rights, warranties and indemnities around the output. We draft these clauses for AI-assisted work so each party knows what it can use, license and defend.

For most organisations using AI tools, yes. A policy sets out who holds rights over generated output, what may be disclosed to a model, and what must be flagged or reviewed before use — which both protects confidential information and reduces intellectual property risk. We review and draft internal AI use policies and align them with your contracts and regulatory obligations.

AI and digital-asset matters rarely sit within intellectual property alone: tokenised assets touch MiCA, training data and AI systems touch the GDPR, and operational resilience touches DORA. Because IP Global Guard is part of META Channel Corporation, we coordinate these overlapping questions within one group, so the IP position and the wider regulatory position stay consistent.