Olivia S. Hiltbrand, Ohio State University College of Law, is publishing Guarding The News Media’s Intellectual Property in the Age of Generative AI in volume 28 of the Stanford Technology Law Review. Here is the abstract.
Technology has posed threats to various creative industries in the past, and as generative artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more widespread, these issues have resurfaced. Not only are there concerns that generative AI might diminish creators’ work opportunities, there are also intellectual property concerns about the data companies use to train generative AI products. For journalists, whose work is copyrighted but often publicly available, this is a problem, especially because facts underlying news reports are not copyrightable. Given the press’s unique societal role, any distortion of news through generative AI could have implications far beyond copyright infringement.
Download the article from SSRN at the link.