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Identification of Generated Content as Protectable Subject Matter and its Legal Implications

https://doi.org/10.17803/2311-5998.2026.140.4s.026-035

Abstract

User-generated content on platforms involves the creation of prompts, in response to which the artifi cial intelligence (AI) system produces certain outputs that may or may not align with the user’s expectations. To obtain the desired result, the user resorts to various clarifi cations of the prompt and adjustments to the task, which may ultimately evolve into an entire “conversation” or thread of prompts submitted to the AI system as input. This process may embody the realization of the user’s creative conception, thereby raising the question of whether a protectable work has been created. The degree of the user’s creative contribution to obtaining the result determines the attribution of exclusive rights in AI-generated works. The legal regime governing those outputs issued by AI in response to a user prompt, but not accepted by the user as fi nal due to the non-realization of their conception, is characterized as part of a computer program embodying generative algorithms.

About the Author

Yu. S. Kharitonova
Center for Legal Research of Artifi cial Intelligence  and Digital Economy; Lomonosov Moscow State University
Russian Federation

Yulia S. KHARITONOVA, Head;  Professor of the Department of Business Law, Dr. Sci. (Law), Professor

1/13, Leninskie gory, Moscow, 119991



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Kharitonova Yu.S. Identification of Generated Content as Protectable Subject Matter and its Legal Implications. Courier of Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL)). 2026;(4s):26-35. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.17803/2311-5998.2026.140.4s.026-035

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