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Intellectual Property,
Technology

Mar. 24, 2023

The case for fair use designation of copyrighted AI training content

Training AI “artists” with copyrighted material is no different than human painters’ access to thousands of landscape oils, watercolors, sketches, and photographs they may (consciously or unconsciously) leverage in creating their own art.

David B. Hoppe

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There is much discussion around whether AI-generated text, images, and music deserve intellectual property status and the copyright and trademark protections that accompany that designation.

But the inputs upon which that AI content is based come largely from the intellectual property people have created. Is it right, fair, and legal for generative AI to be taught how to write, draw, paint, and compose by collecting, collating, and emulatin...

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