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The Creative's Guide to AI and the Law
How to use AI without getting burned, and the protections most creative contracts are missing. From an attorney who actually uses it.
- Why the free AI clause going around reads protective and does almost nothing
- Who owns the work when part of it was AI assisted
- What to do when a client feeds your images into AI
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Written by Magi Fisher. Licensed attorney. Working wedding photographer. Founder of The Artists' Lawyer.
What is inside
What does an AI clause actually need to cover?
Most of the free AI clauses circulating on Threads and in Facebook groups read protective and do almost nothing. Here is what a clause has to address before it is worth putting in your contract.
Who owns the output
What happens to copyright when part of the work was AI assisted, and what you can honestly promise a client about it.
Your client feeding your work into AI
Training, re-editing, and derivative use of the images you already delivered.
Disclosure
When to tell a client you used AI, and how to say it without undercutting your own work.
AI assisted editing
Where retouching ends and generation begins, and why that line belongs in writing.
The four things free versions leave out
The gaps that make a borrowed clause feel safe while doing very little for you.
Language you can actually use
Plain English you can put in front of a client, from someone who uses these contracts in her own photography business.
Written by an attorney who is also a working photographer
Magi Fisher runs a wedding photography business and a law practice, and writes the contracts she uses in both. No legalese. No scare tactics. Just what you need to know before AI shows up in your next client conversation.
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