The US Copyright Office issued formal guidance (August 2023) establishing that copyright protection requires human authorship and creativity, with AI tools treated as technical instruments rather than authors. The Office will reject copyright registration claims for works where essential authorship elements were generated by machines rather than humans. This policy directly creates uncertainty about copyright liability and IP provenance for AI vendors training on copyrighted material without documented consent, making clean data provenance a potential enterprise procurement hurdle. For financial institutions, this codifies training-data liability risk as a material compliance cost for AI model developers and raises the likelihood of IP-related contract exclusions in regulated procurement channels.
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