copyright

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For years now, copyright holders have questioned whether builders of AI models had the rights to all the content that they have used.

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

Since the copyright guardrails were fairly loose, videos soon appeared in the feed that pushed the boundaries of taste.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 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

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