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copyright

[kop-ee-rahyt] / ˈkɒp iˌraɪt /
NOUN
intellectual property
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And a company could face legal exposure if it approaches people who it knows, or should know, have confidentiality agreements or assignments of copyright, says Justin Nelson.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

For licensing reasons, you have to be transparent about the origin of your image, because A.I. works are not copyright.

From Slate • Apr. 1, 2026

Yet the loss of creative control quickly manifested itself: OpenAI “strengthened its copyright guardrails and ‘content violation’ warnings became a routine part of denying user requests,” The Times reported.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026

Instead of carrying on with the case, Warner Music Group agreed to settle its copyright infringement claims against Suno and for Suno to develop new AI-supported products based on licensed music.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

This idea long precedes the legal claim to authorial copyright, which did not exist in British law until 1710, and was established later elsewhere.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton