Olivia S. Hiltbrand (Ohio State U (OSU)) has posted “Guarding The News Media’s Intellectual Property in the Age of Generative AI” (28 Stanford Technology Law Review –– (forthcoming 2025)) on SSRN. 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.