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Official sources, status, and jurisdiction limits

Legal-information boundary. This register supports educational issue spotting only. It is not a comprehensive legal survey, legal advice, rights clearance, or a substitute for reviewing the actual facts, documents, parties, territories, governing law, and current platform rules with qualified counsel.

Automated currency rule: an authority becomes review due after 2026-09-18. “Current” means only that the linked official source was checked on 2026-08-18; it does not guarantee no later amendment, decision, enforcement action, or jurisdiction-specific rule exists.

Endorsements and material connections

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16 CFR Part 255 — Endorsements and Testimonials ↗

Primary authority: Federal Trade Commission / eCFR
Jurisdiction: United States — federal
Authority type: Administrative guides interpreting FTC Act §5
Published / version: 2023-07-26
Verified: 2026-08-18
Next review: 2026-09-18

Scope limit: Applies to endorsements and testimonials in advertising. Whether a representation or disclosure is deceptive remains fact-specific; the Guides do not resolve contracts, copyright, publicity rights, or every advertising use.

Format, placement, monitoring, and platform tools

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FTC’s Endorsement Guides: What People Are Asking ↗

Primary authority: Federal Trade Commission staff
Jurisdiction: United States — federal
Authority type: Official staff business guidance
Published / version: 2023-06-29
Verified: 2026-08-18
Next review: 2026-09-18

Scope limit: Explains FTC staff views on material connections, disclosure presentation, monitoring, and platform disclosure tools. Guidance is not a safe harbor or a substitute for the statute, Guides, or matter-specific analysis.

Authorship, ownership, licenses, and exclusive rights

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Copyright Act, Titles 17 U.S.C. §§ 101, 106, 201, 204 ↗

Primary authority: U.S. Copyright Office
Jurisdiction: United States — federal
Authority type: Statutory text
Published / version: current official compilation
Verified: 2026-08-18
Next review: 2026-09-18

Scope limit: Provides the federal copyright framework. It does not by itself answer contract interpretation, state publicity/privacy rights, labor obligations, platform terms, or the territorial rights needed for a particular project.

Copyrightability of generative-AI outputs

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Copyright and Artificial Intelligence, Part 2: Copyrightability ↗

Primary authority: U.S. Copyright Office
Jurisdiction: United States — federal
Authority type: Official policy report and registration analysis
Published / version: 2025-01-29
Verified: 2026-08-18
Next review: 2026-09-18

Scope limit: Addresses human authorship and copyrightability. It does not allocate ownership or permissions under a particular contract and is not a judicial holding.

Voice, likeness, and digital replicas

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Copyright and Artificial Intelligence, Part 1: Digital Replicas ↗

Primary authority: U.S. Copyright Office
Jurisdiction: United States — federal policy; state law remains relevant
Authority type: Official policy report and legislative recommendation
Published / version: 2024-07-31
Verified: 2026-08-18
Next review: 2026-09-18

Scope limit: Surveys digital-replica issues and recommends federal legislation. The recommendation is not itself enacted federal law. State publicity, privacy, contract, tort, labor, and collective-bargaining rules may control.

Musical works and sound recordings

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What Musicians Should Know about Copyright ↗

Primary authority: U.S. Copyright Office
Jurisdiction: United States — federal
Authority type: Official educational guidance linked to Copyright Act rights
Published / version: official current resource
Verified: 2026-08-18
Next review: 2026-09-18

Scope limit: Distinguishes rights in musical works and sound recordings. Actual clearance may require multiple rightsholders, licenses, territories, media, term, and platform permissions.

AI transparency duties

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Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 — consolidated text, Article 50 ↗

Primary authority: EUR-Lex
Jurisdiction: European Union
Authority type: Binding regulation; duties are actor- and use-specific
Published / version: consolidated 2026-07-27
Verified: 2026-08-18
Next review: 2026-09-18

Scope limit: Article 50 applies to specified provider and deployer situations. Most provisions apply from 2 August 2026, subject to the Regulation’s staged dates and later amendments. It is not a universal label rule for every AI-assisted work.

Known exclusions and mandatory escalation

No fifty-state publicity, privacy, digital-replica, or right-of-promotion survey.
No country-by-country analysis outside the limited EU AI Act reference.
No contract, collective-bargaining agreement, guild rule, license, or choice-of-law analysis.
No current policy register for TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Twitch, X, music libraries, app stores, or advertising networks.
No trademark, defamation, consumer-product, sector-specific advertising, tax, employment, securities, or child-directed-content analysis.

Escalate before publication or payment when a project uses a person’s voice or likeness, lacks a documented license chain, targets multiple jurisdictions, includes regulated claims, involves a minor, depends on exclusivity or ownership, or cannot identify the current platform rule.

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