【Micro Seminar】Creative Ownership in the Age of AI
2026/06/29
研討會日期 : 2026-06-29
時間 : 14:00
主講人 : Professor Jay Lu
地點 : Conference Room B110
主持人 : Professor Yi-Hsuan Lin
演講者簡介 : Dr. Jay Lu received his Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University in 2014. He is currently an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research interests are Decision Theory, Behavioral Economics, and Information Economics.
演講摘要 : Copyright law focuses on whether a new work is "substantially similar" to an existing one, but generative AI can closely imitate style without copying content, a capability now central to ongoing litigation. We argue that existing definitions of infringement are ill-suited to this setting and propose a new criterion: a generative AI output infringes on an existing work if it could not have been generated without that work in its training corpus. To operationalize this definition, we model generative systems as closure operators mapping a corpus of existing works to an output of new works. AI generated outputs are permissible if they do not infringe on any existing work according to our criterion. Our results characterize structural properties of permissible generation and reveal a sharp asymptotic dichotomy: when the process of organic creations is light-tailed, dependence on individual works eventually vanishes, so that regulation imposes no limits on AI generation; with heavy-tailed creations, regulation can be persistently constraining.
