Training Data & Copyright Law

Training Data & Copyright Law

Andres Guadamuz is an academic specialising in IP law at the University of Sussex. He has suggested there are a handful of key questions regarding the debates around using copyrighted data for training AI applications.

  1. Can you copyright the output of a generative AI model?
  2. If you own the copyright to the input used to train an AI, does that give you any legal claim over the model or the content it creates?
  3. Once these questions have been answered in theory, how would the regulation be implemented in practice?

Sources

  1. The scary truth about AI copyright is nobody knows what will happen next - The Verge
  2. AI Data Laundering: How Academic and Nonprofit Researchers Shield Tech Companies from Accountability - Waxy.org
  3. Fair Learning | Texas Law Review