ABSTRACT
This annotated scholarly bibliography collects eighty-two essential works spanning four decades of scholarship on copyright and artificial intelligence. Its curator, a US legal scholar of generative copyright, traces the field from 1980s roots, through the 2023 ChatGPT turning point, and into the 2025 era of litigation. The structure captures and maps the questions and themes that interested AI scholars at each inflection point. Bishop’s substantive annotations capture the central arguments, methodological contributions, and relationship to ongoing debates.
For scholars, it maps the intellectual genealogy of current debates and identifies gaps warranting further research. For practitioners navigating AI copyright questions – whether advising clients, drafting legislation, or litigating disputes – it provides access to insights organized by issue. For students and newcomers to the field, it offers a structured entry point to a rapidly proliferating literature. A Bluebooked citation is provided for each entry, including a direct link to a freely accessible full text of the work, making it a practical research companion.
Bishop, Lea, A Review of AI Copyright Scholarship 1982-2025 (December 18, 2025).
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