Open Lawsuits against AI companies As of Sept. 16, 2025 there were 48 open lawsuits against nine AI companies, as depicted in Figure 1 below. The Bartz v Anthropic class action lawsuit is the focus of this blog. Facts associated with this historic case came from a variety of sources, including an excellent article by […]
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Author: C. Daniel Miller
Investigating AI: How accurate are AI ou...
How accurate are your AI outputs? OpenAI warns us that the outputs generated by their models may not be accurate in their “Terms and Conditions.” Their “Terms and Conditions” also indicate that we should not rely on their AI outputs as a sole source of truth or factual information. That is excellent advice! https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use […]
Investigating AI: Track AI Usage
As the rapid and widespread adoption of artificial intelligence expands across all disciplines, it has become increasingly important to be able to track AI usage and disclose it when required or when it is simply prudent to do so. AI Disclosure Requirements The US Copyright Office requires the disclosure of AI-generated content when applying for […]
Registration Process – Part 4: Copyright
Copyrightability This blog focuses on the copyrightability of AI-created content and requirements to disclose and differentiate between AI-Generated, AI-Assisted and Human Authored content. Why is some AI content not copyrightable and other AI content is copyrightable? Our understanding of the nuances of copyright law comes from having researched and obtained the rights to use thousands […]
Part 3: Generative AI Training
The anticipated U.S. Copyright Office Report titled “Copyright and Artificial Intelligence, Part 3: Generative AI Training” was released in a pre-publication version on May 9, 2025. The report is 113 pages with 588 footnotes gives a lot of feedback from comments for and against AI platforms copying everything that has been digitized in the world. […]
Investigating AI: Introduction
Investigating AI: Introduction – This is an introduction to a series of blogs that will investigate various aspects of copyright and artificial intelligence, often from the perspectives of professionals who have been or anticipate being impacted by AI negatively. Also, we will share the perspectives of others who have found effective ways to use AI […]
AI Transparency Badges
AI Transparency Badges AI transparency is a rapidly growing issue. AI transparency badges could be one way to quickly identify how artificial intelligence was used in content creation. This blog was Human Authored without any use of artificial intelligence, for example. The US Copyright Office requires writers to disclose how artificial intelligence was used […]
Registration Process – Part 3: Disclosur
Copyright Registration Accomplished! This third blog in the series describes the final stage in the process in securing copyright registration for a PowerPoint presentation titled “Copyright in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.” The PowerPoint slides contained human-authored content and both AI-Generated and AI-Assisted content. Copyright registration requires disclosure of AI-generated content. The differences in […]
Registration Process – Part 2: Submissio
Changes to Submitted Copyright Registration Application This is the second of several blogs that describe the actual process of attempting to secure copyright registration for a work that contains both human-authored content and AI-generated content. As noted in the first blog, the disclosure of AI-generated materials is a critical requirement in the copyright registration […]
Registration Process – Part 1: The Age o
DISCLAIMER: Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) platforms were used for research and fact checking for this blog. The following narrative was written and edited by humans. Disclosure of AI-generated materials is a critical requirement in the copyright registration process, and it is necessary to clearly identify human-authored contributions that can be awarded copyright protection. Copyright […]