The U.S. Copyright Office has been releasing several studies on copyright and AI
Part 1: Digital Replicas (addresses the topic of digital replicas—the use of digital technology to realistically replicate an individual’s voice or appearance)
Part 2: Copyrightabiity (addresses the copyrightability of outputs created using generative AI)
There is some debate as to whether AI corpora and outputs are protected by fair use and/or transformative use guidelines.
Part 3: Artificial Intelligence and Copyright: Generative AI Training Data
The focus of this installment is on the copyright implications of generative AI training data. There’s a great technical review at the forefront of the report with how training data is incorporated into large AI models, how it is translated into tokens, etc. The second part is dedicated to issues of fair use, licensing, etc. related to the use of copyrighted work in training data (including a discussion of the four factors).
Copyright implications in text and data mining:
DAIL (the Database of AI Litigation), supported by the TRAILS initiative (funded through NSF): Institute for Trustworthy AI in Law and Society and hosted at George Washington University
Authors Alliance (great summaries and interpretations designed for authors and researchers related to AI and machine learning)
AGORA (AI Governance and Regulatory Archive) Database of AI Legislation
BakerHostelter Ongoing List of AI Copyright Cases
Hein Online customized search (HeinOnline is a great source for legal research on issues of artificial intelligence and associated technologies. The link contains a canned search for "Artificial intelligence or machine learning")
Recommended AI Blog List from TIGER (Technological Innovation:Generating Economic Results program at Emory Law and Business).
Interested in finding out what the federal government is discussing and concerned about in regards to applications of AI to federal functions, as well as in regards to privacy and ethics? Consider congressional hearings and reports, which often incorporate overviews of pending legislation and input from expert witnesses in these areas. Your best source for this source of information is ProQuest Congressional. Note thats hearings are also searchable in the library catalog.