Unlocking the Secrets to Building AI That Navigates the Twists of a Shifting IP World
— Lauren Tulloch, Vice President & Managing Director at CCC
Drawing on Levy’s governance framework and Tulloch’s licensing guidance, the following controls operationalize modernization in practice, aligning rights with real AI use and minimizing downstream fixes:
- Rewrite legacy corporate policies to explicitly cover training, fine‑tuning, prompting/embedding, automated summarization, derivative outputs, and internal vs. external use.
- Ensure that your vendor agreements and standardized procurement templates include AI rights for your AI-related uses, as needed.
- Leverage direct and collective licensing to secure comprehensive rights.
- Design compliance processes to be frictionless for employees, so verifying content rights becomes a routine habit rather than a burden.
- Embed copyright checks into responsible AI frameworks so rights validation happens before content enters any AI workflow.
Enterprises often underestimate the degree to which responsible AI depends on daily behavior and workflow design, not just policy language. The goal is to make the right thing the easy thing, so that compliance becomes a habit rather than a hurdle.
