{
  "id": 12401579,
  "title": "Who owns ‘brain rot’?: inside the international legal drama over a beloved meme",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/06/who-owns-brain-rot-inside-the-international-legal-drama-over-a",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-06T14:00:16.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Guardian Technology",
    "slug": "guardian-technology",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/06/brain-rot-tung-tung-tung-sahur-noxa-openai-video"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Copyright law in the US only applies to human-made creations, but AI characters like Tung Tung Tung Sahur are challenging that One of the most beloved characters in an absurdist genre of online video content has become the center of an international legal battle that could determine where human creativity ends and artificial intelligence begins. Tung Tung Tung Sahur, also known as Triple T, was…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}