Katherine Lee (Google DeepMind; Cornell), A. Feder Cooper (Cornell CS), and James Grimmelmann (Cornell Law) have posted “Talkin’ ‘Bout AI Generation: Copyright and the Generative AI Supply Chain” on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
This essay is an attempt to work systematically through the copyright infringement analysis of the generative AI supply chain. Our goal is not to provide a definitive answer as to whether and when training or using a generative AI is infringing conduct. Rather, we aim to map the surprisingly large number of live copyright issues that generative AI raises, and to identify the key decision points at which the analysis forks in interesting ways.