This CLE program explores how the rapid advancement of AI tools—now capable of producing near market-ready comic art, scripts, and character designs—has heightened legal uncertainty around authorship, ownership, and infringement. Focusing on risk mitigation, the program analyzes the U.S. Copyright Office’s evolving human authorship framework, along with recent federal decisions that narrow protection for AI-assisted and machine-generated works.

Participants will examine how integrating AI into creative workflows can create gaps in the chain of title, complicate rights enforcement, and expose creators, publishers, and their counsel to avoidable liability. The program then shifts to practical strategies attorneys can implement immediately, including strengthening documentation protocols, structuring agreements to address AI inputs and outputs, navigating disclosure obligations, and developing internal policies designed to preserve protectable interests while reducing litigation risk in an increasingly hybrid creative environment.