copyright laundering

English
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Etymology

By analogy with money laundering, which attempts to disguise the source of illegally acquired funds.

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.
    • 2022 December 4, Alex Hern, “AI bot ChatGPT stuns academics with essay-writing skills and usability”, in The Guardian, London, page 22:
      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 material without breaking copyright.
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