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ARTICLE · 06 JULY 2023

AI 101: The Risks Of Using AI-generated Works

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AI is already capable of doing all sorts of tasks that, until recently, could only have been done by humans. But if AI is working for you, could it be infringing others' intellectual property rights?

United KingdomIntellectual Property
Oliver Fairhurst (Lewis Silkin LLP)
Oliver Fairhurst (Lewis Silkin LLP)
Michael Szlesinger (Lewis Silkin LLP)
Michael Szlesinger (Lewis Silkin LLP)

AI is already capable of doing all sorts of tasks that, until recently, could only have been done by humans. But if AI is working for you, could it be infringing others' intellectual property rights? And might you be liable too?

AI 101: The risks of using AI-generated works

This is the third article in our AI 101 series, where the team at Lewis Silkin, Ius Laboris's UK firm, unravel the legal issues involved in the development and use of AI text and image generation tools. In the previous article of the series, we considered questions of ownership and authorship when it comes to generating AI works. In this article we consider how these tools might be infringing intellectual property rights and how users might find themselves in hot water.

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