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Kara Farrell

Abstract

Artificial intelligence is an impressive technological innovation. There is great potential for artificial intelligence programs to aid individuals in their daily lives, including in the workplace. Artificial intelligence is becoming more prevalent in the lives of individuals around the world and is more easily accessible to both the general public and business professionals. This has expedited the process of completing many remedial and time-consuming tasks. Legal professionals have already begun using generative artificial intelligence to reduce the amount of time they must spend on research and drafting small motions. Artificial intelligence has also allowed users to create new forms of art through a collaboration with the artificial intelligence’s training and the human users’ creative input. However, various problems have surfaced regarding artificial intelligence platforms, specifically in their training because the artificial intelligence system learns from copyrighted materials.

This comment will address how the user or the creator of the artificial intelligence platforms should be granted copyright protections over the output created by artificial intelligence. A critical point to determine ownership (and the subsequent liability) of the output is the definition of “authorship” which is applied to copyright in artificial intelligence cases. Without congressional action or a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States, courts must interpret this unprecedented problem with no guidance or uniformity across jurisdictions. This comment proposes that either Congress or the Supreme Court of the United States should grant the users of artificial intelligence programs copyright protections of the output generated through artificial intelligence systems and minimize liability for artificial intelligence creators.

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