Ep 269 What Travel Advisors Can and Cannot Legally Do With AI with Tom Carpenter

Yeah, because kind of like even like rewinding that a little bit too, is that even legal to upload a document that you have not drafted yourself into AI? Yeah.

Well, I mean, if you're uploading something that is copyrighted, then you are infringing on their copyright.

Okay.

Would you say everything kind of has an inherent copyright if somebody's written something out?

Yeah.

So, yes.

So, basically, you own the copyright of a document the minute you draft it.

Okay.

So, if you...

I mean, if you write, basically, you don't need to file with the copyright office in order to have a copyright on the material, right? You just have to, it has to be original.

It has to belong to you, but it has to be your original work.

So if, you know, but most people, if they're serious about protecting their copyright, they put that little copyright notice on the bottom.

Right, right.

If you see that, you shouldn't put it into ChatGPT because... because you're taking somebody's copyrighted material, putting that data into an open source system that is training on that data and reusing that data and maybe reusing that language word for a word.

So there's a big lawsuit right now about people who've written books, authored books that are copyrighted, and they're suing the big AI companies for infringing on their their copyright.

So you don't want to be in the middle of that.

So I would just say, just be very careful about what you're putting in there.

And if it's something that somebody else has written, especially if it's a lawyer who's written that for you, if you want to check my work, call one of the other travel lawyers and say, hey, this is something that Tom Carpenter drafted for me.

I don't think I'm really covered very well on this point and this point and this point.

And let them tell you because, I mean, there are only seven or eight of us in the entire country who do that work.

Um, we're all mostly on the same page about how things should work.

So I'm pretty comfortable that, you know, if you send me something that, that my good friend, Jeff meant drafted, uh, like it's going to be pretty good.

I might, you know, I might have like little things here or there that I might say, Oh, you might want to look at that, but like, it's going to be fine.

You know, I think if, you know, Rose Hachet or Mark Pastronk or Gunas or, uh, or Jessica or one of the other attorneys who, or, or Larry, like we're all going to give, um, give you a good solid legal answer.

Cause we've been doing this for a while.