The Coming Copyright Reckoning for Generative AI

Courts are preparing to decide whether generative AI violates copyright—let’s talk about what that really means

Copyright law in America is a complicated thing. Those of us who are not lawyers understandably find it difficult to suss out what it really means, and what it does and doesn’t protect. Data scientists don’t spend a lot of time thinking about copyright, unless we’re choosing a license for our open source projects. Even then, sometimes we …

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