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Registering and Protecting your Copyrighted Works: AI and ChatGPT

Introduction

On April 17, 2024, Rebecca Fordon, a law librarian from The Ohio State University, gave a CLE session at the Franklin County Law Library about AI.

Handout from 4/17/24 CLE

AI in Legal Practice

Rebecca Fordon Named to vLex Fastcase 50 Class of 2024

Ethics Opinion

ABA Formal Opinion 512
Lawyers Must Have Reasonable Understanding of AI Technology, But Need Not Become Experts
7/30/24

Links

AI and Legal Education Survey Results 2024
ABA Task Force on Law and Artificial Intelligence
AI chatbots need more books to learn from. These libraries are opening their stacks
Only public domain data will be scanned. APNews 6/12/25
AI-Generated Slop Is Already In Your Public Library
404 Media 2/4/25
AI Safety Claims Analysis
Last visited, 6/9/25
AI Safety: UK and US sign landmark agreement
BBC 4/2/24
Bing Chat
The Black Box: Colleges spend thousands on AI to prevent suicides and shootings. Evidence that it works is scant.
Dallas Morning News, 12/122
Can AI be used ethically for school work? Here’s what teachers say
PCWorld 8/20/24
DOGE's AI tool misreads law, still tasked with deleting half of US regulations
Techspot 7/27/25
Education tech policy groups call on federal officials for AI guidance
States scoop 9/20/23 says schools are using AI to limit what students can see on the internet.
‘Game of Thrones’ creator and other authors sue ChatGPT-maker OpenAI for copyright infringement
AP News 9/21/23
Grammarly enters the AI content war with a new anti-cheating tool
PCWorld 8/14/24
Here’s Proof You Can Train an AI Model Without Slurping Copyrighted Content
Wired 3/20/24
How artificial intelligence controls your health insurance coverage
Ohio Capital Journal 6/30/25
Introducing ChatGPT
Try ChatGPT here.
Here’s What You Need to Know About the Blockbuster Meta-Scale AI DealScale co-founder and CEO Alexandr Wang will lead Meta’s new superintelligence unit.
Inc. 6/13/25
The Good and Bad of ChatGPT in Schools
Wired 3/9/23
Law Schools Split on ChatGPT in Admissions Essays
Inside Higher Education 8/4/23
LawDroid Launches CiteCheck AI, A Fail-Safe Against AI Citation Hallucinations
LawSites, 6/27/25
LinkedIn accused of using private messages to train AI
BBC.com 1/22/25
Ohio State announces every student will use AI in class
NBC4 6/8/25
Schools are teaching ChatGPT, so students aren’t left behind
CNN Business 8/19/23
Senate votes 99-1 to remove state law AI moratorium from megabill
Ohio Capital Journal 7/1/25
Some signs of AI model collapse begin to reveal themselves
The Register 5/27/25
Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations
Retraction Watch 7/1/25
Teachers got mad about a cheat button in Chrome. Now Google’s pausing it.
Washington Post 9/19/25
Using AI to Comply With Book Bans Makes Those Laws More Dangerous
Just Security 10/3/23
Vocal backlash forces Wikipedia to pause AI-generated summaries
PC World 6/12/25

Video of 4/17/24 CLE

Articles

AI, Lawyers, and the Courts
Megan Boyd, Georgia State University College of Law, Legal Studies Research Paper, Forthcoming (2024)
AI Tools for Lawyers: A Practical Guide
Daniel Schwarcz and Jonathan Choi, 108 Minnesota Law Review Headnotes 1 (2023)
Multi-Agent Risks from Advanced AI
Hammond et al. (2025). Cooperative AI Foundation, Technical Report #1.

Of Practice Directives & Legal Citation Guides A Brief Reflection on Citing Generative AI “Sources” & Content
AALL Spectrum, Jan/Feb. 2024, article by Dominique Garingan on how to cite AI.

The Past, Present, and Future of Police Body Cameras
R Street.org 7/1/25, concerns use of AI in analyzing body cam footage.
PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS AND LAW
Surden, Harry. Symposium, The Internet and the Law: Legal Challenges in the New Digital Age (2021).

The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem
Atlantic article 3/20/25

International

AI and Copyright : The Training of General - Purpose AI
European Parliament 4/25
Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 June 2024 laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence and amending Regulations (EC) No 300/2008, (EU) No 167/2013, (EU) No 168/2013, (EU) 2018/858, (EU) 2018/1139 an
Eurolex
A Detailed Analysis of Article 50 of the EU's Artificial Intelligence Act
Thomas Gils, Chapter to appear in an upcoming commentary on the EU AI Act (Q3-4 2024).
UK proposes letting tech firms use copyrighted work to train AI Consultation suggests opt-out scheme for creatives who don’t want their work used by Google, OpenAI and others
The Guardian 12/17/24
Urgent Action Needed to Stop AI Developers From ‘Destroying’ Artists’ Careers, Says U.K. Parliament Committee
Billboard, 5/1/24

Proposed Legislation

SB 163
Would restricting the use of artificial intelligence to create pornography, particularly images depicting minors.
Tech group pushes back on AI identity fraud and child porn restrictions
Ohio Capital Journal 6/19/25

Cases

Alter v. OpenAI
Authors Guild v. OpenAI (9/19/23)
Class action copyright infringement lawsuit
Authors sue Anthropic for training AI using pirated books
The Verge 8/20/24
Anthropic wins a major fair use victory for AI — but it’s still in trouble for stealing books Judge William Alsup determined that Anthropic training its AI models on purchased copies of books is fair use.
The Verge 6/24/25. There will be a separate trial on the books Anthropic pirated from the internet.
Daily News v. Microsoft
Eight newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft for copyright infringement 4/30/24
Getty Images and Stability AI face off in British copyright trial that will test AI industry
APNews.com 6/9/25
New York Times v. Microsoft, OpenAI, etc.
2023 federal lawsuit claims various AI companies have violated the copyright of the New York Times.
Thomson Reuters v. Ross (2025)
Judge reconsiders and grants Thomson summary judgment in its copyright infringement case against Ross.
Thousands of authors sign letter urging AI makers to stop stealing books
TechCrunch 7/18/23
Two OpenAI book lawsuits partially dismissed by California court
The Guardian 2/14/24

Copyright Office Guidance

Copyright and Artificial Intelligence Part 3: Generative AI Training
Register of Copyrights Report May 2025
Copyright Registration Guidance: Works Containing Material Generated by Artificial Intelligence
AI's role in creating the content needs to be disclosed on the copyright application
Report on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence, Part 1 Digital Replicas
Copyright Office, published 7/31/24

Comments to Copyright Office

Copyright Clearing Center's response to the Copyright Office's request for comment on AI
11/1/23 Suggests that AI models are being trained with unlawfully obtained copyrighted material

Other LibGuides

ChatGPT and Bing Chat Generative AI Legal Research Guide
University of Arizona Law School Library
Generative AI Resources for Berkeley Law Faculty & Staff
Student Guide to ChatGPT
Suffolk University Law School Library

Executive Order

ADVANCING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE EDUCATION FOR AMERICAN YOUTH
Whitehouse.gov 4/23/25