MIT AI Risk Repository · Risk Sub-Category · 47.03.05

Copyright challenges (uncertain intellectual property status of AI-generated content)

Category: Legal challenges

Description

"The question of who owns the intellectual property rights associated with the output of an AI model remains unresolved in most legal systems. For now, it could be considered that the individual writing the prompt owns the resulting output—provided that there is sufficient human contribution."

From Regulating under Uncertainty: Governance Options for Generative AI (G'sell2024), as extracted by the MIT AI Risk Repository (CC BY 4.0).

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