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The training and creation of deep learning model is usually costly, thus it can be regarded as an intellectual property (IP) of the model creator. However, malicious users who obtain high-performance models may illegally copy, redistribute,…

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This article investigates how AI-generated content can disrupt central revenue streams of the creative industries, in particular the collection of dividends from intellectual property (IP) rights. It reviews the IP and copyright questions…

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In recent years, deep neural network approaches have been widely adopted for machine learning tasks, including classification. However, they were shown to be vulnerable to adversarial perturbations: carefully crafted small perturbations can…

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Assessing whether AI-generated images are substantially similar to source works is a crucial step in resolving copyright disputes. In this paper, we propose CopyJudge, a novel automated infringement identification framework that leverages…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Shunchang Liu , Zhuan Shi , Lingjuan Lyu , Yaochu Jin , Boi Faltings

"Does generative AI infringe copyright?" is an urgent question. It is also a difficult question, for two reasons. First, "generative AI" is not just one product from one company. It is a catch-all name for a massive ecosystem of loosely…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Katherine Lee , A. Feder Cooper , James Grimmelmann

AI-based text-to-image generation has undergone a significant leap in the production of visually comprehensive and aesthetic imagery over the past year, to the point where differentiating between a man-made piece of art and an AI-generated…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Sarah K. Amer

Recent text-to-image generative models such as Stable Diffusion are extremely adept at mimicking and generating copyrighted content, raising concerns amongst artists that their unique styles may be improperly copied. Understanding how…

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The groundbreaking advancements around generative AI have recently caused a wave of concern culminating in a row of lawsuits, including high-profile actions against Stability AI and OpenAI. This situation of legal uncertainty has sparked a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Michael Dinzinger , Florian Heß , Michael Granitzer

Visual diffusion models have revolutionized the field of creative AI, producing high-quality and diverse content. However, they inevitably memorize training images or videos, subsequently replicating their concepts, content, or styles…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Wenhao Wang , Yifan Sun , Zongxin Yang , Zhengdong Hu , Zhentao Tan , Yi Yang

The advent of Generative AI has marked a significant milestone in artificial intelligence, demonstrating remarkable capabilities in generating realistic images, texts, and data patterns. However, these advancements come with heightened…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Dawen Zhang , Boming Xia , Yue Liu , Xiwei Xu , Thong Hoang , Zhenchang Xing , Mark Staples , Qinghua Lu , Liming Zhu

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been widely used in various application scenarios. Since the production of a commercial GAN requires substantial computational and human resources, the copyright protection of GANs is urgently…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Guanlin Li , Guowen Xu , Han Qiu , Shangwei Guo , Run Wang , Jiwei Li , Tianwei Zhang , Rongxing Lu

Since its introduction in 2022, Generative AI has significantly impacted the art world, from winning state art fairs to creating complex videos from simple prompts. Amid this renaissance, a pivotal issue emerges: should users of Generative…

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The commercialization of text-to-image diffusion models (DMs) brings forth potential copyright concerns. Despite numerous attempts to protect DMs from copyright issues, the vulnerabilities of these solutions are underexplored. In this…

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Advances in AI-generated content have led to wide adoption of large language models, diffusion-based visual generators, and synthetic audio tools. However, these developments raise critical concerns about misinformation, copyright…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Lele Cao

We propose a watermarking method for protecting the Intellectual Property (IP) of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). The aim is to watermark the GAN model so that any image generated by the GAN contains an invisible watermark…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Jianwei Fei , Zhihua Xia , Benedetta Tondi , Mauro Barni

Personalized generative diffusion models, capable of synthesizing highly realistic images based on a few reference portraits, may pose substantial social, ethical, and legal risks via identity replication. Existing defense mechanisms rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Hanzhong Guo , Shen Nie , Chao Du , Tianyu Pang , Hao Sun , Chongxuan Li

Text-to-video generative AI models such as Sora OpenAI have the potential to disrupt multiple industries. In this paper, we report a qualitative social media analysis aiming to uncover people's perceived impact of and concerns about Sora's…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Kyrie Zhixuan Zhou , Abhinav Choudhry , Ece Gumusel , Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo

Recent proliferation of generative AI tools for visual content creation-particularly in the context of visual artworks-has raised serious concerns about copyright infringement and forgery. The large-scale datasets used to train these models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Haroon Wahab , Hassan Ugail , Irfan Mehmood

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have shown remarkable success in image synthesis, making GAN models themselves commercially valuable to legitimate model owners. Therefore, it is critical to technically protect the intellectual…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Hailong Hu , Jun Pang

The proliferation of generative AI systems creates unprecedented opportunities for content creation while raising critical concerns about controllability, copyright infringement, and content provenance. Current generative models operate as…

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