Category: AI and copyright law
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Reasonable Expectation of Copyright: The Fourth Amendment Evolved With Tech. Copyright Should Too [Part 1 of 2].
![Reasonable Expectation of Copyright: The Fourth Amendment Evolved With Tech. Copyright Should Too [Part 1 of 2].](https://koailaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/AI-training-on-books.png)
What do AI training and government surveillance have in common? Both challenge long-held legal assumptions about what it means for something to be “public” in the face of rapidly developing technology. This article draws a sharp analogy between the Fourth Amendment’s evolution in response to technological surveillance and the moment of reckoning now facing copyright… Read more
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The Law and Ethics of Generative AI Use of Copyrighted Works
I. Introduction My deeply profound guiding Principle No. 1 for Responsible AI (“Don’t be scum”) starts not being quite so helpful right around here. My IP head and my IP heart diverge here when analyzing generative AI use of copyrighted works to train its AI models. This is where law and ethics collide. Let’s look… Read more