Artificial Intelligence and Copyright: Challenges and Opportunities

AI technologies and their relationship with Intellectual Property (IP) rights have remained a prominent topic on the global agenda this year, as they were last year. With the increasing presence of generative AI models such as ChatGPT, BERT, LaMDA, and DALL-E2, which are capable of creating original content by processing data like text, images and sound, debates continue over whether the outputs generated by these models qualify as copyrighted works, who owns the rights to them if they do, and potential copyright infringements. In this context, while numerous disputes have been brought before courts worldwide, countries have also initiated legislative efforts to address the legal gaps in this area.