The Authors Guild, a US-based professional organization, has included a section on generative AI in their model contract.
- The Authors Guild (Scroll down.)
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The US Copyright Office has ruled that AI-generated works are largely not copyrightable. In particular, they specifically held that writing a prompt is not sufficient “human effort” to establish copyrightable authorship.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/us-copyright-office-issues-highly-anticipated-report-copyrightability-ai-2025-04-02/
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US Copyright Office on the use of copyrighted works in training sets:
(Note that the Trump administration fired the head of the Copyright Office today, so this report might be collateral damage.)
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