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Arkansas Generative AI Content Ownership Act (HB 1876, Act 927)

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Penalty

Disputes proceed under Arkansas contract and IP law, with civil remedies available for breach or misappropriation as described in the act.

Obligations mapped

4 obligations

Overview

First-of-its-kind AI content ownership law. Establishes default rules: prompt/data providers own resulting content if input is legally obtained and ownership not transferred by contract. Employer owns content when employee uses AI within scope of employment under employer's direction. Ownership does not extend to content violating pre-existing IP rights. Federal copyright preemption risk: US Copyright Office holds AI-generated works without meaningful human authorship are not copyrightable. Contractual arrangements can override the default ownership rules.

This is an AI-specific state law.

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Who this applies to

This regulation applies to the following roles:

  • Developers of covered AI systems
  • Deployers and users of covered AI systems
  • Organizations operating in Arkansas

This regulation applies to both companies that build AI products and companies that use AI tools from other vendors.

Ark. Code 18-4-101(a)(2)(A) · Ark. Code 18-4-101(a)(1) and 18-4-101(c) and related sections

AI categories covered

  • General purpose AI
  • Consumer-facing AI

Specific AI use cases:

  • Content generation
  • synthetic media manipulation
  • voice likeness synthesis
  • political synthetic media

What this requires you to do

4 obligations identified from statutory analysis.

Ark. Code 18-4-101(a)(2)(A)

Ark. Code 18-4-101(b)

Ark. Code 18-4-101(a)(2)(B)

Ark. Code 18-4-101(a)(1) and 18-4-101(c)

Regulation summaries are simplified for readability and may not capture every nuance of the underlying statute. Verify important details against primary sources linked on this page.

Enforcement and penalties

Disputes proceed under Arkansas contract and IP law, with civil remedies available for breach or misappropriation as described in the act.

Penalty amounts are based on statutory text and may be subject to adjustment, judicial interpretation, or enforcement discretion.

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Related regulations

Arkansas AI regulation guide lists every tracked rule for this jurisdiction with timelines and obligation tallies.

Regulation summaries are simplified for readability and may not capture every nuance of the underlying statute. Verify important details against primary sources linked on this page.