Who Owns a Machine's Drawing
Wikimedia Commons hosts these characters as public domain, on the reasoning that a purely AI-generated image has no human author and therefore no copyright. Meanwhile a Paris licensing agency filed commercial claims over Tung Tung Tung Sahur, a copyright registration exists on the Roblox side, and the character has been pulled from and restored to games more than once. Nobody has settled who owns a drawing that nobody drew.
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10 moments in this segment.
- - Steal a Brainrot on Roblox. A 15 June 2025 clip from Steal a Brainrot, the Roblox game released a month earlier in which players collect brainrot characters and steal each other's. This is where the meme became property: Tung Tung Tung Sahur was pulled from the game in September 2025 after a licensing dispute involving its creator and a Paris-based agency, restored that November, and removed again in 2026.
- - Garena Reaches Out. 'Akhirnya bisa ngobrol langsung, thanks Garena udah reachout' - 'finally able to talk directly, thanks to Garena for reaching out.' Noxa had objected to the unauthorised use of a similar character in Garena's Free Fire; here the creator says the publisher made contact and the two sides could speak. The record puts it past 11 million views.
- - Removed From the Game Without Asking. 'Sammy deleted tung tung! I did not ask him to remove!' - the creator's public response after the character was pulled from Steal a Brainrot in a licensing dispute in early September 2025. The record puts it past 27 million views.
- - Pulled from Steal a Brainrot. Covers the September 2025 removal of the character from Steal a Brainrot, with its ramp, intro and crafting recipe taken out. No reason was given at the time, and the disappearance dominated the game's community for weeks.
- - Will All of Noxa's Brainrots Go?. A 96-second post in English and Portuguese asking whether all of the creator's brainrot characters are about to disappear. It went up during the autumn of licensing disputes, two weeks before the character was restored to Steal a Brainrot.
- - The second generation. Four later characters in one frame: TicTac Sahur, Nuclearo Dinosauro, Capitano Moby, and Garama and Madundung, uploaded in December 2025. The Commons author field credits a chatbot and the licence is public domain, following the position that purely machine-generated output has no human author and therefore no copyright. A Paris licensing agency filing commercial claims over these characters takes the opposite view, and the question is unresolved.
- - The copyright question, drawn as a cartoon. Artist Fabian Mosele's animated series asks whether an AI-generated character such as Tung Tung Tung Sahur can be owned or licensed by anyone. It accompanies his written argument on copyright in AI-made memes.
- - Who actually owns the drum man. A reporter walks through the competing claims over the character while Fortnite was adding it to the item shop, and what a platform of that size implies for licensing AI-made figures.
- - The copyright fight explained. Lays out the dispute in which the maker of Steal a Brainrot sued a French company over copyright claims on the character, and asks whether an AI-generated figure can be owned at all.
- - A test case for AI ownership. A short summary of the lawsuit, sourced to Dexerto, framing Triple T as the case that may decide whether AI-generated characters can be copyrighted.
