Generative AI tools raise several broad questions related to copyright (that is, a creator's legal rights concerning ownership, use, and economic benefit from work) and moral rights (a creator's rights concerning the integrity or attribution of a work that may be distinct from ownership). Can creative work produced by AI be copyrighted? If so, who owns the copyright? Generative AI tools are trained on large data sets of published creative work pulled from the Internet or databases. Is this a "fair use" under copyright law? Should copyright holders receive compensation? Can creators evoke moral rights to control whether and how their work is included in such databases?
When should authors and publishers indicate when they are using AI-generated materials in works? Do they cite the output, the prompts that generated that output, or both, given that the same prompt may generate a different result each time? And how do they attribute them?