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AI and Copyright

2020· article· en· W3124191795 on OpenAlex
Donna Craig

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.

Bibliographic record

VenueSSRN Electronic Journal · 2020
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicLaw, AI, and Intellectual Property
Canadian institutionsYork University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPublic domainFair useCopyright lawContext (archaeology)Intellectual propertyCopyright ActAgency (philosophy)EnforcementOriginalityLaw and economicsLegal aspects of computingPolitical scienceLawMeaning (existential)Computer scienceSociologyThe InternetCreativityWorld Wide WebEpistemology
DOInot available

Abstract

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This chapter examines the most pertinent issues facing copyright law as it encounters increasingly sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI). It begins with a few introductory examples to illuminate the potential interactions of AI and copyright law. Section 2 then tackles the question of whether AI-generated works are copyrightable in Canada and who, if anyone, might own that copyright. This involves a doctrinal discussion of “originality” (the threshold for copyrightability) as well as reflections on the meaning of “authorship,” and concludes with the suggestion that autonomously generated AI outputs presently (and rightly) belong in the public domain. Section 3 turns to consider issues of copyright infringement. First, it addresses the law in respect of AI inputs (the texts and data used to train AI systems, which may themselves be copyrightable works) and highlights the need for greater limits and exceptions to ensure that copyright law does not obstruct best practices in the development and implementation of AI technologies. It then examines the matter of potentially infringing AI outputs (which may, of course, resemble copyright-protected, human-created works), identifying current uncertainties around independent creation, agency, and the allocation of liability. Section 4 addresses the deployment of AI in automated copyright-enforcement, emphasizing its increasingly critical role in shaping our online environment and citizens’ everyday encounters with copyright enclosures. The chapter concludes with reflections on the risks and opportunities presented by AI in the copyright context, and identifies key gaps and questions that remain to be answered as copyright law and policy adjust to evolving AI technologies.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.983
Threshold uncertainty score0.474

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.011
GPT teacher head0.213
Teacher spread0.201 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it