AI-generated short dramas are becoming increasingly popular online. As more and more people are using AI to create short dramas and the revenue prize increases, an important legal issue has come up: can AI short drama be protected under copyright law, and if someone copied this short drama, what can the creator do to protect their copyright?

By Oliver Walsh, Head of Evidence Services, Rouse In 2020, a legal research startup called ROSS Intelligence went to Thomson Reuters and asked to license Westlaw. It was told no. Westlaw's owner was not about to hand its editorial content to a company building a rival product. On the district court's findings, ROSS took another route. It paid a third party for tens of thousands of lawyer-written legal memos which had been compiled with reference to Westlaw's headnotes, the sh

Attribution: 中华民国总统府 Taiwan's Criminal Investigation Bureau has opened an investigation into a video that allegedly used an AI-generated voice clone of President Lai Ching-te, in a case that is now testing how far existing forgery law can stretch to cover synthetic political speech. The video, titled "Oil Cannot Defeat You," was published by a creator known as "Principal Lai'er," identified as Wei Chun-you, a former director of the opposition Kuomintang's New Media Department

Following the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative’s (USTR) decision on April 30 to designate Vietnam as a Priority Foreign Country in its Special 301 Report, Hanoi responded with a high-priority enforcement push aimed at curbing persistent IP violations. The Vietnamese government issued Official Dispatch No. 38/CĐ-TTg from the Prime Minister as its Action Plan. Key components affecting copyright piracy are: Cross-Agency Enforcement Mandate: Orders coordinated, immediate

Artificial intelligence developer Anthropic has received final court approval for a landmark US$1.5 billion settlement resolving copyright claims brought by a class of authors whose books were allegedly copied without permission to build a digital library used in connection with training its Claude AI models. The settlement, approved by a U.S. federal judge, is the largest copyright agreement of its kind in U.S. history and marks another significant development in the growing

In the earlier articles in this series, we covered how, for decades, the fight against piracy has turned on one simple question: was the content copied? It is the foundation on which much of copyright enforcement has been built. A film is copied. A television programme is rebroadcast. A football match is streamed without permission. In each case the infringement is visible, because the work itself has been reproduced. The scale of that problem is enormous and still growing: d

South Korea has announced an expansion of its international anti-piracy efforts, signalling a growing recognition that digital piracy is no longer a domestic issue but a transnational criminal challenge requiring coordinated cross-border enforcement. The initiative strengthens cooperation between the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the Korea Copyright Protection Agency (KCOPA), and international law enforcement partners, including Interpol and the United States Homel

By Oliver Walsh, Head of Evidence Services, Rouse In the autumn of 2025, a new actress began doing the rounds. She had a name, Tilly Norwood, a headshot, a showreel and, before long, talent agencies reportedly taking an interest. She had never drawn breath. Tilly was generated entirely by software, and when the actors' union SAG-AFTRA responded, its objection doubled as a definition of the problem. She was, it said, "a character generated by a computer program that was traine

In late June 2026, the Indonesian Directorate General of Intellectual Property (DGIP), executed several enforcement actions targeting digital content piracy. The DGIP’s Directorate of Law Enforcement issued blocking orders against 29 illegal webtoon platforms and 50 illicit Korean drama (K-drama) streaming networks. Indonesia’s Copyright Content Blocking Framework The DGIP’s mechanism governing content blocking runs as follows: [Foreign IP holder or Copyright Associatio