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[Guest Post] From photos to 3D replicas: can AI-generated copies infringe EU design rights?

The IPKat has received and is pleased to host this guest contribution from Katfriend Daan Breuking (holla legal & tax): From photos to 3D replicas: can AI-generated copies infringe EU design rights? by Daan Breuking On 28 September 2026, AMD announced an agreement to acquire World Labs, the spatial AI company led by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, for approximately $8.2 billion. Earlier that month, World Labs introduced Atlas , an AI model capable of reconstructing three-dimensional environments from photographs and videos. Meanwhile, Meta's SAM 3D technology enables users to generate three-dimensional representations of objects from a single photograph. 

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