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Artificial Intelligence

This guide discusses generative AI tools available for research, with tips for writing prompts and citing AI generated content in your works.

What is Copyright?

  • Copyright is a basic constitutional right afforded to all citizens. The constitution states that the government shall provide "for limited times authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries” United States Constitution, Article I, Section 8
  • The right provided is essentially a bundle of permissions allowing the owner the ability to control who can sell, copy, distribute, translate, edit, and perform your works.

Copyright & Intellectual Property LibGuide (CSUN Library's Guide on Copyright & Intellectual Property)

Can I Use Images & Text Generated by AI?

*AI generated materials do not currently receive copyright protections in the United States.  

*Use may be determined by the terms of use or terms and conditions of the GAI tool.

*If the terms of use do not address further uses of material generated by the GAI tool, then you are free to use the material.

*Some environments and publication arenas require full attribution for images and text that have been generated with AI.

Is Content Generated by AI Tools Copyrightable?

Currently, copyright protection is not granted to works created by AI. 

Is Generative AI Stealing From Creators?

Some AI image and text generation tools have been trained on material scraped from web pages without the consent or knowledge of the web page owners.

Several law suits claim that the use of artists’ or writers' content, without permissions, to train generative AI is an infringement of copyright.

With no decision reached, there is no definitive answer on whether the training of AI models is considered an infringement of copyright.  However, several experts have pointed to previous fair use cases to justify a fair use argument for the use of various training data for AI image generation tools.

AI and Copyright Cases

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