Authored by: 宋海燕 and Wang Mo
On February 8, 2024, Guangzhou Internet Court rendered a verdict in China’s first case concerning the infringement of AIGC outputs, finding the defendant, a text-to-image AIGC provider, liable for infringing the copyrights of the famous Ultraman IP.[1] The court also discussed China’s first AI regulation—the Interim Measures for the Management of Generative Artificial Intelligence Services issued in July 2023 (2023 GAI Measures) in its decision, concluding that the defendant failed to exercise reasonable duty of care in generating its AIGC output, thus violating the 2023 GAI Measures.