EC Library Guide on artificial intelligence and intellectual property: Introduction
Introduction
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Artificial intelligence and intellectual property
Two specific issues arise from the interaction between copyright and generative AI:
1) The potential copyright infringement by the developers of these generative AI tools, through the use of copyright-protected materials to train their algorithms. This data is collected through techniques known as "mining".
2) On the other hand, whether works produced by – or with – generative AI tools are copyright-protected, and who owns the resulting copyright.
Source: European Commission, Intellectual Property Helpdesk
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