Copyright in respect of the works created through the generative artificial intelligence tools

In the recent years, since the introduction into the market of generative artificial development (AI) tools, the discussions of copyright as related to AIgenerated works have aroused more questions than answers. The creative activity, the humans’ exclusive province before, has been now changing. The problems of AI-generated works have become the concern of the creative industries, education, library acquisitions, etc. At the same time, the conflict has blazed up around using copyrighted works for educating AI systems. During the recent two years, in many countries the legislators have been striving to regularize the challenging area and to find solutions. The authors review the latest initiatives, recommendations, active lawsuits though the lens of AI users and developers and the copyright owners. Within the range of AI-related issues, the authors focus on the dual problem: on one hand, on how to deal with copyrighted works used as the source to train AI tools, and, on the other hand, on who owns the rights to the contents generated with these tools. The authors’ arguments and recommendations may be useful for elaborating the approach to defining of the status of AI-generated works in various areas, including librarianship.