Legal Layer
Sena EvrenLegal architecture for AI builders and founders. Turning complex liability, privacy, and regulatory questions into practical product decisions.
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Who Owns the Code Claude Wrote?
TL; DR
Agentic coding tools like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex generate code that may be uncopyrightable, owned by your employer, or contaminated by open source licenses you cannot see. Some of this is settled law, some is actively contes...
The EU AI Act Has Three Deadlines Now. Which One Is Yours?
The EU AI Act deadline on August 2, 2026 is both real and not real, depending on what kind of AI system you are building.
TL;DR — read this if you have two minutes
- August 2, 2026 is still the legally binding date. The Digital Omnibus...
I read every EDPB document on LLM privacy so you don't have to. Here is what they actually say.
The EDPB, the EU’s top data protection body, has published three documents that together define what GDPR compliance looks like for any product that uses an LLM.
Most founders have skimmed a LinkedIn hot-take about Opinion 28/2024. Very fe...
Why Privacy by Design Breaks on AI Systems. How to fix it.
Ann Cavoukian published the seven foundational principles of Privacy by Design in 2009, building on work she had started in 1995. The first principle is proactive. The idea was that privacy should be anticipated and prevented before harm oc...
Who pays when the AI goes wrong? The coming liability crisis for builders.
A startup ships an AI-powered HR screening tool. The model was built on a third-party foundation model, fine-tuned on job descriptions, and deployed inside a hiring workflow. The startup’s team never reviewed individual decisions. The model...
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