---
title: "AI-Generated IP Rights"
url: "https://legal.ge/en/service/technology-and-digital-law-en/ai-generated-ip-rights-en"
field: "Technology & Digital Law"
description: "Copyright in AI-created material under Georgian law: protected objects, origin of rights and the authorship presumption. Legal.ge."
reviewed: "2026-02-15"
updated: "2026-10-14"
publisher: "legal.ge"
---

# AI-Generated IP Rights

> Source: legal.ge, https://legal.ge/en/service/technology-and-digital-law-en/ai-generated-ip-rights-en

## Who is the author: the question in the age of artificial intelligence

When a system based on artificial intelligence creates material or fully determines it, the first legal question concerns authorship: does copyright arise in such material at all, and to whom does it belong? In Georgia this question is governed by the Law of Georgia on Copyright and Neighboring Rights. The law contains no separate norm on artificial intelligence, so the answer must be constructed from its foundational concepts: what is an object of copyright, when is a work deemed created, and who is deemed an author. Below we explain these concepts and show where the case of material produced by artificial intelligence creates a distinctive difficulty.

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### Does copyright arise in text generated solely by a system?

Under the law, copyright covers the result of intellectual-creative activity existing in objective form. The law does not state that a non-human system can be deemed an author, so identifying authorship for a purely machine-generated result is contestable and requires a case-specific assessment.

### Is the prompt text I give to a system protected?

As a rule, no. Copyright does not extend to ideas, methods, processes, systems, means, concepts, principles, discoveries or facts, even if expressed in a work. Unless the instruction has been shaped into a separate completed work, it is not protected by copyright.

### Is registration needed for copyright to arise?

No. Copyright arises from the moment of creation, and neither registration nor special formalities are required for its origin or exercise. Rights holders commonly place the protection mark — the letter C in a circle with the name and the year of first publication — on copies of the work.

### How is authorship proven in a dispute?

The presumption of authorship applies: a person properly indicated as the author on the original or a copy is deemed the author unless the contrary is proven. Timely and appropriate indication of authorship on the material is therefore essential evidence.