Unlocking the Secrets to Building AI That Navigates the Twists of a Shifting IP World
Tulloch emphasizes the crucial need to determine whether a content license includes AI uses at all, and, if so, whether the covered uses are sufficient for your purposes — for training, fine‑tuning, prompting/embedding, automated summarization, and derivative outputs. Even paid sources can remain off‑limits for AI workflows if the underlying licenses aren’t broad enough.
She adds that much of this exposure originates in procurement, where historical contracts rarely contemplate machine‑use. Modernization, therefore, requires standardized AI clauses and renewal playbooks so that rights are negotiated proactively rather than discovered reactively by technical teams.
