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Where you are matters for five of these seventeen answers. It does not matter at all for seven.
Copyright and trademark registration are federal – no state can change who owns an AI output or whether a logo can be a mark.
Five more answers keep the same rule everywhere but change who can sue you.
Five genuinely change by state.
the breakdown
Identical in all 50 states: ownership of generated images, registration, platform disclosure rules, stock-library rules, training terms. Copyright is exclusively federal – 28 U.S.C. §1338(a) gives state courts no jurisdiction over it, and 17 U.S.C. §301(a) preempts equivalent state rights.
Same rule, different remedies: artist-style prompts (trademark has a state overlay – about 25 states protect marks famous only in-state), output-ownership contracts (state contract law, including a California work-made-for-hire trap), and retouching (all 50 states have their own consumer-protection statutes with very different teeth).
Genuinely varies: ad disclosure (one state – New York), likeness rights (~37 states recognize a right of publicity; 10 have AI-replica laws), uploading someone's face (Illinois lets you sue for $1,000–$5,000; Texas gives you personally nothing), and deletion rights (20 states have a privacy law in effect; 26 have none).
Same rule, different remedies: artist-style prompts (trademark has a state overlay – about 25 states protect marks famous only in-state), output-ownership contracts (state contract law, including a California work-made-for-hire trap), and retouching (all 50 states have their own consumer-protection statutes with very different teeth).
Genuinely varies: ad disclosure (one state – New York), likeness rights (~37 states recognize a right of publicity; 10 have AI-replica laws), uploading someone's face (Illinois lets you sue for $1,000–$5,000; Texas gives you personally nothing), and deletion rights (20 states have a privacy law in effect; 26 have none).
The questions
Asked, not yet answered
Questions people have actually asked that have no verified answer here yet. This list is the editorial backlog, in public – a resource that hides its gaps is asking you to trust its confidence instead of its method.
- open since 30 Jul 2026Does the EU AI Act’s artistic-work exception cover fashion and beauty campaigns? The operative text of the Art. 50(4) carve-out has not been verified against the Commission’s worked examples.
- open since 30 Jul 2026Can I clone my own voice for client narration? ElevenLabs’ voice-cloning rules live at a path their robots.txt blocks compliant tools from reading – not yet verified firsthand.
- open since 30 Jul 2026Who owns an AI image generated inside Microsoft Copilot? Microsoft’s own image-generation documentation does not say.
- open since 30 Jul 2026Are state election-deepfake laws enforceable after the California injunctions? The appellate posture of Kohls v. Bonta is unverified.
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