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2023

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Copyright Throughout A Creative Ai Pipeline, Sancho Mccann Jan 2023

Copyright Throughout A Creative Ai Pipeline, Sancho Mccann

Canadian Journal of Law and Technology

Consider the following fact pattern.

Alex paints some original works on canvas and posts photos of them online. Becca downloads those images and uses them to train an AI (training configures the AI’s model parameters to useful values). Becca posts the resulting trained parameter values on her website under a license that reserves to Becca the right to use the parameters commercially. Cory uses those parameter values in a program that is designed to produce artwork. Cory clicks create and the program produces a work. This work is new to Cory, but it looks a lot like one of Alex’s …