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This paper challenges the argument that generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is entitled to broad immunity from copyright law for reproducing copyrighted works without authorization due to a fair use defense. It examines fair use…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-10-20 David Atkinson

Breakthroughs in generative AI (GenAI) have fueled debates concerning the artistic and legal status of AI-generated creations. We investigate laypeople's perceptions ($N$$=$$432$) of AI-generated art through the lens of copyright law. We…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Gabriel Lima , Nina Grgić-Hlača , Elissa Redmiles

Artificial Intelligence (AI), and in particular generative models, are transformative tools for knowledge work. They problematise notions of creativity, originality, plagiarism, the attribution of credit, and copyright ownership. Critics of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Advait Sarkar

Creativity is the ability to produce novel, useful, and surprising ideas, and has been widely studied as a crucial aspect of human cognition. Machine creativity on the other hand has been a long-standing challenge. With the rise of advanced…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Mete Ismayilzada , Debjit Paul , Antoine Bosselut , Lonneke van der Plas

With the advancement of artificial intelligence systems capable of autonomously generating artistic, literary, musical works, and even inventions without direct human intervention, the intellectual property (IP) regime faces unprecedented…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Ali Mazhar , Mohammad Zare , Marjan Veysi

This chapter discusses the ethics of generative AI. It provides a technical primer to show how generative AI affords experiencing technology as if it were human, and this affordance provides a fruitful focus for the philosophical ethics of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Michael Klenk

A new class of tools, colloquially called generative AI, can produce high-quality artistic media for visual arts, concept art, music, fiction, literature, video, and animation. The generative capabilities of these tools are likely to…

Training generative AI models requires extensive amounts of data. A common practice is to collect such data through web scraping. Yet, much of what has been and is collected is copyright protected. Its use may be copyright infringement. In…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Sebastian Stober , Tim W. Dornis

Generative AI based art has proliferated in the past year, with increasingly impressive use cases from generating fake human faces to the creation of systems that can generate thousands of artistic images from text prompts - some of these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Avijit Ghosh , Genoveva Fossas

Is the output of generative AI entitled to First Amendment protection? We're inclined to say yes. Even though current AI programs are of course not people and do not themselves have constitutional rights, their speech may potentially be…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Eugene Volokh , Mark Lemley , Peter Henderson

Robust access to trustworthy information is a critical need for society with implications for knowledge production, public health education, and promoting informed citizenry in democratic societies. Generative AI technologies may enable new…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Bhaskar Mitra , Henriette Cramer , Olya Gurevich

This study provides an in_depth analysis of the ethical and trustworthiness challenges emerging alongside the rapid advancement of generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and proposes a comprehensive framework for their…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Cheonsu Jeong , Seunghyun Lee , Seonhee Jeong , Sungsu Kim

Generative AIs produce creative outputs in the style of human expression. We argue that encounters with the outputs of modern generative AI models are mediated by the same kinds of aesthetic judgments that organize our interactions with…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Jessica Hullman , Ari Holtzman , Andrew Gelman

The growing use of generative AI raises ethical concerns about authorship and plagiarism. This study examines how people judge the reuse of AI-generated content, focusing on moral patiency and ownership perceptions. In an experiment,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Hyesun Choung , Soojong Kim

The rapid development of generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies raises concerns about the accountability of sociotechnical systems. Current generative AI systems rely on complex mechanisms that make it difficult for even…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Yuri Nakao

The rise of Generative Artificial Intelligence systems ("AI systems") has created unprecedented social engagement. AI code generation systems provide responses (output) to questions or requests by accessing the vast library of open-source…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Dimitrios Ioannidis , Jeremy Kepner , Andrew Bowne , Harriet S. Bryant

Generative AI (e.g., Generative Adversarial Networks - GANs) has become increasingly popular in recent years. However, Generative AI introduces significant concerns regarding the protection of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) (resp. model…

Creativity is a deeply debated topic, as this concept is arguably quintessential to our humanity. Across different epochs, it has been infused with an extensive variety of meanings relevant to that era. Along these, the evolution of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Philippe Esling , Ninon Devis

Creativity has always been synonymous with humans. No other living species could boast of creativity as humans could. Even the smartest computers thrived only on the ingenious imaginations of its coders. However, that is steadily changing…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Raj Shekhar

The emergence of Generative Artificial Intelligence (G-AI) has changed the landscape of creative arts with its power to compose novel artwork and thus brought ethical concerns. Despite the efforts by prior works to address these concerns…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Jingyu Shi , Rahul Jain , Runlin Duan , Karthik Ramani