Questions tagged [artificial-intelligence]
Artificial Intelligence involves computers generating data or using data. Questions should be related to the legal uses of said technology, or litigation related to it.
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Are there any cases where AI training was "fair use"?
Are there any cases in the world about this (including with local equivalents of "fair use" law)?
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Is the use of a copyrighted sound file for voice cloning excluded from infringement?
If a copyrighted sound file is uploaded to a voice cloning service, is this excluded from infringement, because voice cloning doesn't use the sound file directly (instead it collects mathematical ...
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Are AI-based reproductions of fictional character subject to the copyright?
Services like Character.ai allows users to create custom characters using language model fine-tuning, based on instructions provided by its users. Are the fictional characters created by the users of ...
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Pursuing statutory damages for copyright violation from AI use
This is hypothetical; not something I'm dealing with actively.
My understanding is that even if I don't profit from a copyright I hold, I can still sue for statutory damages if someone violates that ...
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Is there any "incitement" type defence in copyright breach?
There is a paper that is cited in the Coders vs. Github Copilot case.
the judge cited the study's observation that Copilot reportedly "rarely emits memorized code in benign situations, and most ...
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What (new) legal principles can guide the necessary changes in social-economic (tax, social, labour) law due to AI transformation of economy and work? [closed]
What (new) legal principles can guide the necessary changes in social-economic (tax, social, labour) law due to AI transformation of economy and work?
I would prefer research trends, authors and ...
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How well is Substantial Part defined in copyright law?
The UK Government says this about the relevance of substantial part to copyright law:
Infringement is where someone uses the whole or a substantial part of your work without your permission and none ...
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Is there any legal justification for content on the web without an explicit licence being freeware?
Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft AI has expressed an opinion that creative works published openly on the web without an explicit licence are freeware and the restrictions of copyright do not ...
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If one creates a copy of a copyrighted work for a licenced purpose can one reuse the copy for another purpose?
Multiple lawsuits have been filed relating to training of generative AI models on copyright protected works. A recent suit seems to focus particularly on this aspect. It seems there could also be a ...
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For copyright determination purposes, how can AI-generated content (eg.lyrics) be proven as such rather than human generated?
Most answers I have seen to the question of whether AI-generated content is copyrightable cite law in the US and other countries limiting copyright to human-created content. However all the answers I ...
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Use creations made by AI tools
Do we have the right to use an image or text or other generated by Google Bard / Gemini / other known AI tool and put it on our site for example?
or do you have to pay for the tool like microsoft / ...
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It is legal to distribute a generative AI model where content filtering is completely absent?
E.g. If a large language model doesn't censor inappropriate content (like violent, sexually explicit, hateful, etc. content), or allows users to make the model swear, is this legal?
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Can I use AI to enhance my own Images?
I understand AI art isn't copyright material. However, I am curious if the creator generates AI versions of the creation are those AI versions the copyright of the creator? I'm not sure how else to ...
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Is there an open source software license restricting AI model training?
I have a whole bunch of public git repositories online, licensed under MIT, and I'm wondering what options are there to restrict open source software use for AI model training with a commercial intent....
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Protecting AI related IP by assigning all current and future IP to an LLC
Consider a fairly typical IP assignment clause, such as
I understand that the provisions of this Agreement requiring assignment of Inventions to the Company do not apply to any Invention that I have ...
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is there (yet) a standard, simple license header that prohibits machine learning?
Is there an SPDX or other widely accepted license header syntax/format that prohibits machine learning?
My company's Github license statement includes:
"Licensee is not granted the right to, and ...
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Legality of AI vocals from royalty-free music
I'm a fairly new music producer, and one of the inherent problems with it is that it means you have to do all the work yourself: sound design, any vocals, mixing, and mastering. There's quite a few ...
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Are people's face/voice copyrighted by default?
As you may know there are some AI apps that can clone anybody's voice (turn your voice to their voice), or there are some face swap apps you can replace your face with somebody else's face and make a ...
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Legal Recourse for Unfair Grading Based on Unverified AI Classification Results
Can a student pursue legal action against an educational institution for grading them unfairly based on unverified AI classification results? Considering the inherent limitations of AI classifiers and ...
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Is voice cloning allowed for non-commercial utilizations?
When the uses of voice cloning (also known as audio deepfakes) are non-commercial, are they legal?
"Voice cloning" is a feature of speech synthesis systems that use a neural network. It ...
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Can a person use AI-generated human faces as their profile picture?
I've read an article about marketers creating fake linkedin accounts with AI-generated human faces as pfp. A human face makes the account more professional and intimate.
I'm not talking about using AI ...
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Legal status of training image-to-image style transfer model
A image-to-image style transfer is a machine learning model designed to change the art style of a image by providing a "source" image and the desired image to change the style. However, a ...
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If you blend copyrighted voices to create a unique voice, does the resulting creation become exempt from copyright restrictions?
Suppose I blend copyrighted voices taken from popular media to craft an entirely distinct vocal composite.
For instance, combining snippets of various celebrity voices (like Leonardo Dicaprio and Mr. ...
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Microsoft's Bing Chat says 'Ask me anything...'. Is it legal then for Americans to ask Bing Chat for classified information?
Microsoft's Bing Chat is an artificial intelligence web application, and it has a dialog box for users to ask it questions and there is a text message displayed in that dialog box that says, "Ask ...
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Do creative works that utilize generative AI require attribution?
Suppose I create content (videos, essays, etc.) that utilizes generative AI to create illustrations (e.g. Midjourney, DALL-E, etc.), do I need to cite the AI tool I used? Will I still be the copyright ...
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Would a dealership be required to honor a car sale agreement made by their chatbot?
Recently, a Chevorlet ChatGPT-powered chatbot was tricked into stating that it would sell a car for only $1:
[BOT] Welcome to Chevorlet of Watsonville! Is there anything I can help you with today?
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Who is accountable if a truly driverless car hits and kills a person? [duplicate]
Last night, I couldn't sleep, and in my wakeful state, I allowed the river of thoughts to take me wherever it wanted to flow. This led me to a question: "Who is accountable if a truly driverless ...
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Is a party to a contract who writes it using an LLM considered the author?
Bob is selling a vehicle to Alice. He asks ChatGPT to write a contract, and it does, for some reason, write it. (It has filters in place to prevent users from writing legal documents, but these ...
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Copyright risks for code contributed by generative AI
Suppose a company is developing software, and an engineer/coder uses some code generated by Code LLaMA or some similar generative AI.
Microsoft has brought out copilot, which does a similar thing and ...
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Can someone promote their text-to-speech application that has public figures voices?
Let’s supposed that we have a Text-To-Speech site with public figures voices and we want to make some videos in order to promote it.
Our country legislation includes presumed consent for people that ...
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Does the UK text and data mining exception to copyright allow non-commercial projects free use of anything on the internet to train their models?
On the UK government page on Exceptions to copyright the text and data mining exception is described as:
Text and data mining is the use of automated analytical techniques to analyse text and data ...
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Legality of AI-generated picture of famous person
A number of online sites that sell the rights to use images commercially now offer artificial intelligence-generated images. Some people claim they aren't really legal, because the AI is "trained&...
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Question about ownership of a language model trained on copyrighted data
This question refers to LLMs in the stile of ChatGPT. I just removed the word "large" to make it broader. In the future smaller models may have commercial applications.
I will break my ...
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How would a finding of copyright breach affect third parties using data derived from the breach?
There are multiple cases in the court system challenging the legality of training AI models on copyrighted work. A recent one seems particularly damming if true, with OpenAI accused of using ...
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Burden of proof in intellectual property disputes involving generative media
I've been pondering a hypothetical situation where someone claims that a piece of art I created could not possibly be my intellectual property, asserting that it was AI-generated. In such a scenario, ...
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Has agency law been tested against LLM backed agents?
As more and more companies replace humans with large language model backed generative AIs (e.g. ChatGPT), I was curious to know if there have been any lawsuits (or compelling legal papers) addressing ...
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Can AI images be copyrighted by the person who creates them?
Suppose I use an artificial intelligence (AI) program to create a picture of a famous person (e.g. a politician or movie star), Suppose I then use the picture in an article or book in a manner that ...
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Are Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo and other search engines allowed to copy website text because of the copyright fair use exception? [duplicate]
These sites certainly send bots out that copy the entirety of websites by stepping through links and then store the entirety of websites in databases.
Then they show any part of a quote from a website ...
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Is summarizing copyrighted content by an AI "fair use"?
Stack Exchange has announced that it will introduce as a preview a new form of a question asking assistance:
Through an updated semantic search experience, after a user searches or asks a question in ...
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How is the ownership/copyright of AI-generated content determined? [duplicate]
I've been looking on the internet about current laws concerning the ownership and copyright of AI-generated content. And for most of them that I've seen, most of them do not consider the AI that ...
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Does 2 party consent apply if the data is anonymized?
If I have a text conversation between myself and another party, both of whom reside in 2 party consent states in the US, if I remove all reasonably identifying information, do I still need consent ...
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Is it legal for a business to deny me access to their store on the basis of how I look? [closed]
Is it legal for a business to use discriminatory (and notoriously false-positive) fingerprinting algorithms that prevent me from loading their website purely on the basis of how I look (as opposed to ...
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Is the usage of an OCR service causing copyright issues when a photo of a book page is analyzed?
Here's the scenario
A user takes a photo using an app from a book, which might have be copyrighted.
The app then uploads the photo to a cloud service in order to analyze it using OCR
The app receives ...
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How is Midjourney's ToS Legal?
I feel this is fairly straightforward, but I have seen no explanation as to why Midjourney is allowed to restrict the "copyright" or commercial use rights of their users, paid or otherwise, ...
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Is free willing protected rights? What if Artificial Intelligence agent have self conscious, is it protected from human editing its willing? [closed]
Say it is now some years later, we have created an artificial intelligence (AI) agent with self conscious and capable of thinking in a loop of thought under bounded rationality just like humans do...
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Is an AI model considered a derivative work?
Suppose an AI art model was trained exclusively on Mr. X's artwork. Suppose Mr. X managed to prove that the model was only capable of producing derivative works. He would then own the copyright to all ...
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Can artists file for plagiarism if their art is used in AI models to make AI art, given that there is proof they're the authors of their work?
(I am an IT student writing a report proposing using blockchain technology to attribute "art" files, used in AI models, to their authors. I know next to nothing about copyright laws for ...
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Is AI child virtual porn illegal in the US?
With the rise of AI art generators capable of making explicit and nsfw content free of charge, I worry about the ethical and moral boundaries that come along with it. In particular, it is possible to ...
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What does "Household Exception" to the GDPR mean?
GDPR Section 2 Recital 18 (?) reads:
Not Applicable to Personal or Household Activities
This Regulation does not apply to the processing of personal data by a natural person in the course of a purely ...
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Who owns the copyright in this case?
As a layman interested in the law, I'm facing a bit of a conundrum posed by my cousin.
Here are the facts:
A records company, M Ltd, has created (e.g. written code for, trained etc.) an AI that can ...
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