Post by OTP Law Corporation

With the 2026 Budget making AI adoption more accessible than ever for SMEs, a high-stakes legal question is becoming urgent: who actually owns what the AI produces? Lim Seng Siew breaks down Singapore's current IP landscape as it applies to AI-generated content - and why many SME owners are sitting on digital assets they may not legally own. Three key risks: the Authorship Void (IPOS's position that copyright requires a human author), the Accidental Plagiarism Trap, and the Trade Secret Strategy for protecting your custom prompts and model weights. Plus: practical contract clauses for when you commission AI-assisted work from vendors or employees. This is the first article in our new AI, the Law and the SME series. Read it here: https://lnkd.in/e-v5pFwN #AILaw #IntellectualProperty #SingaporeSME #OTPLaw #AISingapore