China’s courts establish national rules for AI disputes while leaving AI copyright unresolved

The Supreme People’s Court has issued its first national AI-dispute guidance, extending existing law to training data, generated content, personal information, deepfakes, algorithmic discrimination, autonomous vehicles, contracts, and platform liability. The guidance does not resolve whether AI-generated works receive copyright, reinforcing China’s incremental, issue-specific governance model; lower-court application and future copyright rules are now the key developments.