OpenAI agent breach strains IP rules built around human conduct
By Melissa Ritti ( September 4, 2026, 17:54 GMT | Comment) -- A recent unauthorized download of private code and data hosted on Hugging Face — and public staging of some of the same material — is surfacing new questions about liability under US intellectual property law, including whether artificial intelligence developers can be held responsible for actions taken by autonomous agents.Artificial intelligence cannot, on its own, qualify as an author or inventor under current US law....
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