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wikipedia large language models and copyright wikipedia jump to content main menu main menu move to sidebar hide navigation main page contents current events random article about wikipedia contact us contribute help learn to edit community portal recent changes upload file special pages search search appearance donate create account log in personal tools donate create account log in contents move to sidebar hide top 1 does llm output inherently violate copyright law 2 is llm output capable of violating copyright law 3 does the cc by sa license prohibit posting uncopyrightable llm content on wiki 4 see also 5 notes 6 references toggle references subsection 6 1 wikimedia toggle the table of contents wikipedia large language models and copyright add languages add links project page talk english read edit view history tools tools move to sidebar hide actions read edit view history general what links here related changes upload file permanent link page information get shortened url switch to legacy parser print export download as pdf printable version in other projects wikidata item appearance move to sidebar hide from wikipedia the free encyclopedia essay on editing wikipedia this is an essay it contains the advice or opinions of one or more wikipedia contributors this page is not an encyclopedia article or a wikipedia policy as it has not been reviewed by the community shortcut wp llmcopyright wp llmcopyright what is understood is that posting public domain and non copyrighted material under a creative commons license has always been legally acceptable if it weren t then every edit that fixed a typo reverted a bad edit or otherwise didn t produce copyrightable material would have been deemed a license violation years ago does llm output inherently violate copyright law edit the copyright status of llm generated text is not defined by statute so it is hard to make confident claims but precedent exists for computer generated art and other works created by non humans here is what the us copyright office has to say 1 the office will not register works produced by nature animals or plants likewise the office cannot register a work purportedly created by divine or supernatural beings although the office may register a work where the application or the deposit copy ies state that the work was inspired by a divine spirit similarly the office will not register works produced by a machine or mere mechanical process that operates randomly or automatically without any creative input or intervention from a human author not all jurisdictions have the same view for example the uk maintains the view ai generated works are normally copyrightable in a fashion similar to works for hire and that the copyright is held by the operator creator custodian of the ai 2 the uk is one of only a handful of countries to protect works generated by a computer where there is no human creator the author of a computer generated work cgw is defined as the person by whom the arrangements necessary for the creation of the work are undertaken protection lasts for 50 years from the date the work is made both maintain the view ai systems do not have a legal personhood and they cannot hold the copyright on their own whether artificial neural networks are capable of producing original intellectual output is less of a legal issue and more of a philosophical anthropological one human brains are themselves neural networks much has been said in a variety of fields on the subject of whether humans create original works versus whether they merely juxtapose or recombine motifs and concepts that they re exposed to through participation in society while interesting and humbling these discussions are unrelated to whether neural networks which have been exposed to copyrighted material in the course of their existence are capable of later creating original works under the purview of intellectual property law they are and if this were not the case a large majority of creative work would be illegal good luck finding a band where none of the musicians have ever heard a copyrighted song before companies that offer public access and use of proprietary software do not automatically hold a claim to copyright on all works produced using their products merely because the products themselves are proprietary adobe does not own copyright on all works produced using photoshop and apple does not own copyright on all photographs taken with iphones it is unlikely that openai for example could require attribution or issue takedowns under the dmca however there are circumstances under which the terms and conditions of an api may cause a company to restrict continued access to the model based on adherence to certain criteria this could include any number of things like providing attribution for llm output not using it to write racial slurs not using it to write material critical of the company et cetera is llm output capable of violating copyright law edit the answer here is obviously yes an example prompted from chatgpt a what are the lyrics to moonage daydream by david bowie keep your lectric eye on me babe put your ray gun to my head press your space face close to mine love freak out in a moonage daydream oh yeah these are indeed the verbatim lyrics to an unambiguously copyrighted song of note is the fact that it was specifically asked to do this compare with this prompt using the first couple of lines of the song i m an alligator i m a mama papa comin for you i m a space invader i ll be a rock n rollin bitch for you i m a force of nature a wild beast a creature of the swamps a king of the feast i m a living legend a natural high cause i m an alligator and i ll never die while this would be a sick judas priest song it isn t one and in fact this text seems to never have been published it bears mentioning that many human beings also know the lyrics to moonage daydream and are capable of typing them into the edit box with no assistance whatsoever doing this in an article would still be a copyright violation for llms the critical piece of knowledge is that output needs to be checked and that it is insufficient to assume that generated text is always novel keep in mind that while these examples were blindingly obvious it may be less so in practice it is a good idea if you are producing a large amount of text to use a search engine for snippets on the off chance that the model has coincidentally duplicated previously published material apart from the possibility that saving an llm output may cause verbatim non free content to be carried over to the article these models can produce derivative works for example an llm can rephrase a copyrighted text using fewer the same or more words than the original editors should mind the distinction between a summary and an abridgement does the cc by sa license prohibit posting uncopyrightable llm content on wiki edit according to creative commons the makers of the license uncopyrightable content can be licensed under any creative commons license 3 for example a comment on a talk page that says only thanks is not copyrightable but posting that non copyrightable comment as cc by sa 4 0 does not violate the terms of any creative commons license the least restrictive license or legal status always applies so public domain and otherwise uncopyrightable content remains unrestricted even if it is posted under a more restrictive license for the convenience of people reusing wikipedia content creative commons suggests but does not require labeling public domain and non copyrightable content as cc0 see also edit wikipedia artificial intelligence resources notes edit note this of course is not a copyright violation in itself it would be if it were published in such a way as to deprive the copyright owner of income moreover it is not even plagiarism since the lyrics are attributed to bowie references edit compendium of u s copyright office practices 313 2 pdf united states copyright office 22 december 2014 p 22 retrieved 18 january 2023 artificial intelligence and intellectual property copyright and patents gov uk retrieved 2023 03 19 walsh kat 2023 08 18 understanding cc licenses and generative ai creative commons retrieved 2026 02 06 wikimedia edit m wikilegal copyright analysis of chatgpt perspective on a legal issue retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title wikipedia large_language_models_and_copyright oldid 1357915159 categories wikipedia essays wikipedia essays about artificial intelligence wikipedia copyright wikipedia supplemental pages hidden category pages transcluding nonexistent sections this page was last edited on 5 june 2026 at 12 48 utc page was rendered with parsoid text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike 4 0 license additional terms may apply by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc a non 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