China’s Supreme People’s Court (SPC) has released the “Typical cases on the fifth anniversary of the promulgation of the Civil Code” (民法典颁布五周年典型案例) including one generative AI case in which the Beijing Internet Court held that an AI-generated voice infringed a dubber’s personality rights. While China is not a common law country, designating a case as a Guiding Case or Typical Case is analogous to a US Court marking a case as precedential in that the SPC is indicating to lower courts to adjudicate future cases in accordance with this decision.
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