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Almost certainly. Terms of Service set the rules for using your product and cap your liability; a Privacy Policy is frequently required by law the moment you collect personal data, and it has to describe what you actually collect and why. The real trap is the copied template—it usually misstates your true practices, and a policy that's wrong can create more legal risk than having none. Tailor it to what your product genuinely does.
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Yes—and it's the kind of risk that hides until it doesn't. Open-source licenses come with strings: attribution, and for copyleft licenses like the GPL, sometimes an obligation to release your own source under the same terms. Pull in dependencies without tracking their licenses and you can quietly build a compliance problem that only surfaces during diligence or a dispute. A lightweight policy and a periodic dependency review keep it from becoming a fire drill.
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It's genuinely unsettled, and the ground keeps shifting. Purely AI-generated output may not get the same copyright protection as human-authored work, and the terms of the AI tool you used can quietly shape what rights you have and what you owe. If AI is part of your product or your content pipeline, treat ownership as a deliberate decision—including how much human authorship is involved—rather than assuming the default lands in your favor.
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