OpenAI Offers Legal Protection For ChatGPT Business Users Affected By Copyright Violation Problems

OpenAI launches support for "Copyright Shield." (photo: dock. pexels)

On November 6, in his first developer conference, DevDay, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced the latest legal protection called "Copyright Shield." This protection only applies to ChatGPT Enterprise users and OpenAI developers platforms, where OpenAI is willing to bear legal costs if users face copyright infringement charges.

OpenAI joins technology companies such as Microsoft, Amazon, and Google that also offer legal support for users accused of copyright infringement. In addition, companies such as Adobe and Shutterstock also made similar promises regarding their generative AI products.

DevDay OpenAI also announced that users will soon be able to create a custom ChatGPT model with the option to sell it in an upcoming app store, along with the latest updated AI model known as ChatGPT-4 Turbo.

However, OpenAI is also facing a number of lawsuits claiming the company used copyrighted material to train their AI model.

Some of the lawsuits include allegations by Sarah Silverman, a comedian and writer, who along with two other people sued OpenAI in July. They stated that ChatGPT's training data included their forbidden work accessed from illegal online libraries.

In September, OpenAI was also faced with at least two other lawsuits. One of them is a collective lawsuit stating that OpenAI and Microsoft used stolen personal information to train the model, while Guild Author sued OpenAI for alleged "systematic theft" of copyrighted material.