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If ChatGPT wrote it, who owns the copyright? It depends on where you live, but in Australia it's complicated

  • Written by: Wellett Potter, Lecturer in Law, University of New England
If ChatGPT wrote it, who owns the copyright? It depends on where you live, but in Australia it's complicatedPrathankarnpap/Shutterstock

ChatGPT and other generative AI tools which draw on large language models (LLMs) are a hot topic. Released in November 2022 by OpenAI, ChatGPT is a chatbot – it generates text output refined through user prompts.

What makes it special is just how sophisticated and impressive that output is. The stratospheric rise...

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