You keep ownership of what you type in, and AI21 gives you ownership of the AI's responses — but be aware that other users might receive nearly identical outputs from the AI.
If you are a business using AI21 outputs for commercial content, you should be aware that the same text may be given to other users, creating risks of duplicate content, copyright conflicts, and reduced commercial value for content you paid to generate.
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Compare across platforms →While you are assigned ownership of AI outputs, the caveat that outputs may not be unique undermines the value of that ownership and creates potential IP conflicts if two users receive identical outputs and both claim ownership.
(1) REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: Intellectual property ownership of AI-generated outputs is a rapidly evolving area. The U.S. Copyright Office has issued guidance indicating that purely AI-generated content with no human creative input is not copyrightable (Copyright Office Guidance 2023). EU copyright law (Directive 2019/790) similarly requires human authorship. The assignment of AI outputs in this clause may therefore assign rights in content that AI21 cannot legally own to begin with, creating ambiguity. (2)
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