X-CGP-ClamAV-Result: CLEAN X-VirusScanner: Niversoft's CGPClamav Helper v1.23.2 (ClamAV engine v0.103.2) Return-Path: Sender: To: CNI-ANNOUNCE Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2023 16:05:52 -0500 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from [73.160.73.173] (account clifford@cni.org HELO [192.168.1.7]) by cni.org (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 6.2.15) with ESMTPSA id 40381918 for cni-announce@cni.org; Thu, 02 Mar 2023 15:27:12 -0500 X-Original-Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2023 15:27:11 -0500 From: Cliff Lynch X-Original-To: cni-announce@cni.org X-Original-Message-ID: <20230302152711778174.70543623@cni.org> Subject: Generative AI and Copyright Law -- Congressional Research Service Issue Brief MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: GyazMail version 1.7.1 There's a very good, succinct paper from the Congressional Research Service that summarizes the many interactions between generative AI systems (both in terms of the training sets used to develop these systems and the outputs that such systems produce) and copyright law. There are many, many more questions than answers here, but this is a helpful summary of the issues. See https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10922 Once again, I'm indebted to Gary Price for the pointer to this report. Clifford Lynch Director, CNI