Rostam J Neuwirth, ‘Intellectual property law and generative artificial intelligence: fair remuneration, equality or “My plentie makes me poore”’

INTRODUCTION
Against the backdrop of vigorous global debates about artificial intelligence (AI), it is a fundamental mistake to believe that the recent rise in AI services is driving copyright and all of IP law into a serious crisis. It is accurate to state that OpenAI’s introduction of Chat-GPT in November 2022 and its hype took many by surprise when it registered more than 100 million active users in less than 2 months, which helped make it ‘the fastest-growing consumer technology in history’. It is also accurate to state that the constantly evolving abilities of these technologies are posing a challenge to IP law, especially their rapid evolution from mere chatbots to multimodal large language models, with the looming prospect of an emerging artificial general intelligence. These technologies are portrayed as capable of engendering creative content or, at least, of mimicking the human generation of creative content at unprecedented scales …

Rostam J Neuwirth, Intellectual property law and generative artificial intelligence: fair remuneration, equality or ‘My plentie makes me poore’, Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice. Published: 16 April 2025.

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