Inside AI Policy

February 8, 2025

Copyright Office says current law protects generative AI ‘outputs,’ in eagerly awaited ‘Part 2’ of guidance

By Charlie Mitchell / January 29, 2025

The U.S. Copyright Office has issued the second in a three-part series of guidelines on artificial intelligence policy, concluding in this case that changes in law are unnecessary to protect “AI-generated outputs,” after the first part of the report, issued last summer, urged Congress to address gaps in protections related to “digital replicas.”

Part 3 of the report will address the hotly contested issue of “training AI models on copyrighted works,” although a release date has yet to be set....


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