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Field notes on authoring, claiming, and defending AI characters.

Practical, sourced analysis of copyright and trademark as applied to AI-generated characters — written by the people building the assessment tool. New posts weekly.

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Who Owns Tung Tung Tung Sahur? A Delaware LLC Is Trying To, And the USPTO Isn't Convinced

A Delaware shell company quietly filed trademarks on four of the biggest AI-generated brainrot characters. The original creator is in Indonesia. Here's what the USPTO record actually says.

Ashton Levy-Park
Ashton Levy-ParkFounder
·10 min
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