By James Konstantin Galvez ( October 16, 2026, 09:14 GMT | Insight) -- The Philippines’ intellectual property office aims to issue guidelines by the end of the year clarifying how human creative contributions to artificial intelligence-assisted works will be assessed for copyright registration, while keeping questions about the legality of AI training data outside that process.The Philippines’ intellectual property regulator is preparing guidelines to clarify how human creative contributions to artificial intelligence-assisted works will be assessed for copyright registration, while keeping questions about the legality of AI training data outside that process.Teodoro C. Pascua, director general of the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines, or IPOPHL, told MLex that under the proposed guidelines, the agency would assess whether original expression in an AI-assisted work is attributable to human creativity, rather than apply a single threshold for sufficient human involvement.The proposed guidelines would not automatically exclude works created using AI from registration. Instead, applicants would need to demonstrate that a work contains original expression attributable to a human author under the applicable originality standard, he added....
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