Some useful links to help understand how AI data is collected and processed:
(Note: IT moves at the speed of light, so some of this information may have evolved from the time of publication, but these links will get you started. Happy reading!)
https://research.aimultiple.com/data-collection/
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3296044/data-is-the-lifeblood-of-ai-but-how-do-you-collect-it.html
https://stacker.com/news/15-things-ai-can-and-cant-do
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8963864/
From the ultimate authority: US COPYRIGHT OFFICE
This is a link to a USCO guide to their AI initiative. It contains various links, including the “Zarya” decision and the Paradise Review Board decision.
https://www.copyright.gov/ai/
(The following sample can be used/shared in part or in its entirety without attribution/citation.)
Sample copyright statement with AI provision:
IMPORTANT NOTE: THIS IS ESSENTIALLY A TEMPLATE OF SORTS. I strongly recommend that you run it by your legal counsel to see if your counsel will want it modified specifically for you.
BASIC COPYRIGHT STATEMENT: No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except as permitted by U.S. copyright law. For permission requests, contact [include publisher/author contact info].
[AI RESTRICTION: The author expressly prohibits any entity from using this publication for purposes of training artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to generate text, including without limitation technologies that are capable of generating works in the same style or genre as this publication.
The author reserves all rights to license uses of this work for generative AI training and development of machine learning language models.]
The story, all names, characters, and incidents portrayed in this production are fictitious. No identification with actual persons (living or deceased), places, buildings, and products is intended or should be inferred.
(The following sample can be freely used/shared in part or in its entirety without attribution/citation.)
FOR EDITORS: The following is sample language you may want to include in your contracts and/or websites if you choose not to edit AI-generated material.
At the present time, there are no legal precedents to guide general and/or specific policy in publishing with regard to copyright of AI-generated product. In addition, at this time, the US Copyright Office is working to establish policy with regard to copyright of AI-generated material. Their concise reasoning behind this is that AI-generated product is scraped from original human-created, likely copyrighted material without the originator’s consent.
Using copyrighted material without the originator’s consent is a form of plagiarism/copyright violation. As such, until legal precedents have been established with regard to copyright of AI-generated works, in order to avoid the risk of anything remotely touching on plagiarized content or any violation of existing copyright, [insert name of company or party] cannot accept for editing any manuscript that contains AI-generated material.
*We regret any inconvenience this may cause our clients, but at this time and due to the complete lack of any guidelines with regard to copyright of AI-generated material, we have chosen to err on the side of caution. Once parameters and procedures have been established with regard to copyright of AI-generated material so as to avoid any possibility of plagiarism, we will revisit this policy.
*Thank you for your understanding.
{Note: The two asterisked paragraphs should be removed before including language from this sample in a client contract.}
