Three positions
Position 1
Person owns clone
The data subject retains ownership of any clone built from their corpus, regardless of who paid for the training run.
Position 2
Builder owns clone
The person who funded and engineered the training owns the clone, subject to licensing terms with the data subject.
Position 3
Co-ownership
Clones are joint works. Neither the subject nor the builder can exploit the clone without the other's consent.
Best practices
- ●Default to co-ownership absent a contract.
- ●Make termination explicit. Either party should be able to wind down a clone with notice.
- ●Separate the model from its outputs. Ownership of a clone need not imply ownership of every paragraph it writes.