Copyright

Can You Copyright That AI-Generated Blog Post? What Small Businesses Need to Know About Ownership and Infringement in 2026

U.S. copyright protects only human authorship, so raw AI output is unprotectable and unenforceable. The Copyright Office's January 2025 report found prompts alone do not make you the author — protection attaches only to the parts a reader can see you wrote. Here is what that means for small-business marketing content, plus the disclosure, licensing, and bookkeeping records that prove it.