Copyrighted materials are the fuel for artificial intelligence (AI) systems, but misunderstandings persist about how copyright applies to the use of content as training material for AI models. These misunderstandings extend to content used in end user applications of AI, such as the summarization of collections of articles, interrogation of documents for insights, automation of literature screening, and creation of visualizations of content sets, among others.  

Review our tip sheet to explore some common assumptions about copyright and AI and address several widely held misunderstandings on the subject. 

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