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Technology,
Intellectual Property

Nov. 22, 2024

Generative artificial intelligence and copyright: Who owns the rights?

Generative AI raises thorny copyright issues, from the legality of using protected material for training to determining ownership of AI-generated works, with courts and experts proposing nuanced approaches to balance innovation and creators' rights.

Victor S. Dorokhin

Email: victordorokhin1@gmail.com

Victor S. Dorokhin, PhD, is a legal expert, attorney, lecturer, and the author of the book "Law, Morality, and Economics."

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With the advent and development of generative artificial intelligence (AI), new copyright challenges have arisen that can be divided into two key questions: can copyrighted material be used in model training, and who owns the rights to the works created by the algorithms?

The root of the first issue lies in the way generative AI systems are trained. Like most machine learning models, they work by identifying and reproducing patterns in data.

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