On September 4, 2026,Zhao Xuan, a partner at Mankun Law Firm,will be invited to attend a special eventhosted by the Shanghai AntChain Industrial Development and Innovation Center,where,under the theme "From Prompts to On-Chain Evidence: Rights Confirmation, Commercial Use and Rights Enforcement for AIGC Works,"he will share key legal issues arising in the creation, commercial use and rights enforcement of AIGC works, drawing on current copyright rules and relevant judicial practice.
● Who actually owns AI-generated works?
AIGC works often involve prompt input, parameter adjustment, local redrawing and manual modification, and how much of the final output constitutes human creative expression directly affects the determination of copyright.
In this session, Zhao Xuan will discusswhether AIGC works can have their rights confirmed, to whom the rights may belong, and how prompts and human creative acts affect copyright determination,among other issues.
● Dozens of versions of prompts were written—why should the creative process still be preserved?
AIGC generates content quickly, and many creation records exist only in platform backends. Once a dispute arises, if only the final product is retained, proving originality may not be easy.
Therefore, in addition to the final product,prompts, generation times, iteration versions, source files, modification records, and relevant platform records may all become important materials for proving the creative process.
● Once recorded on-chain, is it certain to become valid evidence?
Blockchain evidence preservation is increasingly appearing in scenarios involving the confirmation of rights in digital content and the enforcement of intellectual property rights.
In practice, in judicial practice, whether electronic evidence can be admitted often still depends on a comprehensive assessment ofthe source of the evidence, the generation process, the entity preserving the evidence, technical reliability, content integrity, and whether it can corroborate other evidenceand other factors.
This event will also further discuss how thegeneration records, timestamps, and on-chain evidence of AIGC works should be preserved so that they can be of value when a dispute actually arises.
● What are the risks of using AI works for commercial purposes?
Copyright issues surrounding AIGC are not limited to the scenario where one's own works are copied.
When enterprises begin to use AI images, AI videos and virtual characters in advertising, brand design, game assets or commercial orders, they also need to consider another question:Could the generated content infringe the copyright, trademark rights, portrait rights or other lawful rights and interests of others?
For enterprises, what AIGC compliance truly needs to address is not whether AI can be used, butwhat content can be used, how it may be used, who reviews it, and who bears responsibility once problems arise.
● Event Information
Event time:September 4, 2026, 13:30
Event venue:328 Kangning Road, Jing'an District, Shanghai
Organizer:Shanghai Ant Chain Industrial Development and Innovation Center
