AI and its implications for copyright -opinion
Summary
This access allows the software to generate works by using its computing abilities to retrieve pieces of data from already available databases in order to create a new creation/work. A keyboard is seen reflected on a computer screen displaying the website of ChatGPT, an AI chatbot from OpenAI, in this illustration picture taken Feb. 8, 2023. However, some courts have applied existing copyright principles to analogous situations involving computer-generated works, and these cases may be instructive. For example, in the case of Feist Publications, Inc. v. Rural Telephone Service Co., a European court held that while a computer program may be protected under copyright law, the resulting output is only protected if it is original and creative, meaning that it owes its origin to human authorship. Alternatively, new laws may require that the AI software disclose all its sources and/or give automatic credit – citations.