Generative AI and copyright: between fair use and theft
- This paper takes a closer look at the question of whether an AI-generated artwork infringes on copyrights of human creators. To this purpose, a number of relevant terms are defined, and the legal framework of copyright in the EU and the USA outlined. Afterwards, an explanation of how generative AI is trained follows before the paper examines the process with which an AI generates content. The conclusion analyses ethical aspects of using copyrighted works, especially without the creators’ permissions, to train a generative AI that then produces similar works that could directly compete with human creators on whose data it was trained.
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| Author: | Alexander Emery Naumann |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:960-opus4-36509 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.25968/opus-3650 |
| Advisor: | Jutta BertramORCiDGND |
| Document Type: | Study Thesis |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2025 |
| Publishing Institution: | Hochschule Hannover |
| Release Date: | 2025/08/05 |
| Tag: | artificial intelligence; copyright; large language models |
| GND Keyword: | Künstliche IntelligenzGND; UrheberrechtGND; UrheberrechtsverletzungGND; Großes SprachmodellGND |
| Page Number: | 16 |
| Institutes: | Fakultät III - Medien, Information und Design |
| DDC classes: | 020 Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - CC BY-NC-ND - Namensnennung - Nicht kommerziell - Keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International |
