How much longer can AI companies collect and monetise other people’s IP? Phoebe Whitlock investigates – Counsel
‘In preparing to write this article, I visited the website interface of a well-known artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot and asked, “Do you harvest the intellectual property of other people to answer questions?” To paraphrase the answer, I was assured that this chatbot does not actively access or harvest other people’s intellectual property (IP) and that it generates responses based on patterns learned from licensed, created and publicly available data. Interestingly, the chatbot concluded by saying, “My outputs may resemble existing works, but I’m designed to avoid reproducing copyrighted material verbatim.” Clearly, it is a question that has been asked before.’
Counsel, 8th December 2025
Source: www.counselmagazine.co.uk
