Thailand: Copyright

Thailand's Department of Intellectual Property has released statistics showing significant growth in IP filings for the first half of 2026, with trade mark applications up 8% and copyright notifications surging 33% year-over-year. The data reveals strong domestic participation alongside sustained international interest, with health, retail, and consumer sectors leading trade mark activity while Thai universities dominate copyright recordation.

Artificial intelligence is fundamentally changing the nature of copyright infringement by enabling the extraction of creative intelligence rather than simple copying. This shift from traditional content piracy to what the author terms "Intelligence Piracy" raises critical questions about how we protect not just creative works themselves, but the accumulated knowledge and capability that makes those works possible.

The surge in AI development has created unprecedented demand for training data, leading many organizations to turn to synthetic data as a solution.

Foreign nationals are generally permitted to start businesses in Thailand, subject to the applicable laws. This chapter discusses some key legal requirements...

With all the discussions regarding regulating digital platforms, we think it is time to address some safe harbour protections for social media platforms under Thai law.

假冒、仿造和侵权产品的流入，对泰国政府和合法商标与版权所有者构成了长期的重大挑战。这些非法行为不仅导致政府税收流失，还可能对

Under current law, the term of protection for photographic works is 50 years from the work's creation or first publication.

Thailand's latest draft amendment of the Copyright Act was approved by the cabinet in late 2020 and is currently being reviewed by the parliament.

-commerce platforms have become some of the most significant marketplaces in Thailand, with millions of daily business transactions and huge numbers of online users