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This Week in Startups · 2025-09-18 · 18 min · 3,484 words

Who Owns the Output? AI Copyright & IP Explained w/ Chris Paniewski | Startup Legal Basics

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All right, everybody, welcome back to Start Up Basics. Why did I do this series? So they get asked the same questions over and over again. And I like to help founders navigate complex issues, even the simple ones. Today we're gonna talk about complex. And a moving target with Chris Pinewski, partner at Wilson Cincini.

Yeah, we talked, Chris, in my first uh discussion with you about input and training data. Great. If you guys want to see that, go to this week in startups dot com slash basic. Part two. Output transcript: You know, and I brought up the very evocative issue of Star Wars content. one thing you might want to do using a large language model out there is say, hey

Make me into a Jedi knight. Now. Is that legal or not? It turns out. A lot of the LLMs have said

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