AI’s Thorny Copyright Questions Create International Patchwork

Government regulators will be tasked in 2024 with pursuing definitive answers to questions posed by powerful generative artificial intelligence technology, including a pair of issues that could dictate the next phase of AI adoption and the intellectual property they use and produce.

Namely: Will the likes of US-based OpenAI Inc. and UK-based Stability AI Ltd. require licenses to train their models on copyrighted material? And will the outputs of these models receive their own copyright protections?

The answers will shape the technology industry’s investment priorities in the booming global AI market, and help to determine where creative industries, such as ...