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Ask Dr. Copyright® About AI

January 5, 2026 Ask Dr. Copyright, Copyright

Dear Doc, Many questions about artificial intelligence (AI) remain up in the air as judges try to keep up with technology that is developing faster than the speed of light. It seems to me that many of the issues might be solved if we just kept the AI companies from putting copies of other peoples’ […]

Ask Dr. Copyright® About AI

November 13, 2025 Ask Dr. Copyright

Dear Doc: I keep reading that the New York Times, book publishers, authors, musicians, and others are bringing lawsuits against companies that develop artificial intelligence software, claiming that the AI companies are infringing copyright by using published materials to “train” AI. What’s going on? Signed,Genuinely Intelligent Dear GI: The authors and publishers object not only to […]

Ask Dr. Copyright® About AI

August 21, 2025 Copyright

Dear Doc: I hear that using copyrighted materials to train artificial intelligence systems is legal. Can that be true? Signed,Every Artist, Ever Is Using Copyrighted Materials to Train AI Legal? Dear EAE: Training artificial intelligence (AI) systems, particularly large language models (LLMs), is a process that relies on vast amounts of information that is broken […]

Ask Dr. Copyright © About AI

August 24, 2023 Ask Dr. Copyright

Dear Doc: I see that several artists and authors have sued artificial intelligence companies, claiming that using their writings, artwork, voices, etc. to train AI systems violates copyright. What do you think of that? Can they stop this whole AI thing using copyright law? Signed,Asking for an Artificial Friend Dear Asking: The Doc is skeptical […]

Ask Dr. Copyright © (or is it???)

March 27, 2023 Ask Dr. Copyright, Copyright

 Dear Doc: It seems that all anyone wants to talk about now is artificial intelligence. Are there copyright issues involved in AI? Signed, ChatGPT  Dear Chat: The Doc has been thinking about this question for a long time. Back in the “dark ages” of computers (ca. 1983) we used to call the job of getting […]

Ask Dr. Copyright © about Artificial Intelligence

November 17, 2022 Ask Dr. Copyright

Dear Doc: I have read your columns about how patent law is now mostly unable to protect inventions that incorporate artificial intelligence and machine learning computer applications. So…what’s an aspiring inventor in those fields to do? How may such systems be protected? Is all hope lost? Signed, HAL Dear HAL: No. All is not lost. We […]

If Artificial Intelligence is the Inventor, Who Gets the Patent?

October 14, 2021 Patent

Artificial intelligence (‘AI’) can be pretty smart – smart enough to create new, useful and non-obvious inventions. Take, for example, Dr. Stephen Thaler’s AI tool ‘Device for the Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience’ (‘DABUS’).  DABUS created two inventions, a light beacon and a food container.  Dr. Thaler applied for patents for those inventions around the world, […]

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