copyright laundering

Noun

copyright laundering (uncountable)

1. (derogatory, neologism) The transformation of copyrighted material, for example by means of artificial intelligence, to produce a derivative work that cannot be clearly identified as such.
   • The AI is trained on a huge sample of text taken from the internet, generally without explicit permission from the authors of the material used. That has led to controversy, with some arguing that the technology is most useful for “copyright laundering” — making works derivative of existing...2022 December 4, Alex Hern, “AI bot ChatGPT stuns academics with essay-writing skills and usability”, in The Guardian, London, page 22
   • As already pointed out, they used one such fair use/fair dealing exemption as a form of copyright laundering when it was actually for a for-profit purposes.2023 November 25, Echo (username), “Law firms are throwing legal spaghetti at the wall to take down gen-AI, but judges are so far unimpressed”, in The Passive Voice, archived from the original on 02...