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Act 927 of 2025 (HB 1876), Generative AI Ownership of Model Training and Content

Ark. Code Ann. § 18-4-101

In force since .

An AI training data rule binding public and private bodies.

Criminal exposure
No
Audit expectation
none

What it requires

  • Absent a contrary agreement, if you supply the input or directive to a generative AI tool, you own the content it generates for you, so long as that content does not infringe an existing copyright or other intellectual property right.
  • Absent a contrary agreement, if you supply the data or input used to train a generative AI model, you own the resulting trained model, so long as the training data was lawfully acquired and you have not transferred ownership of it by contract.
  • If your employee generates content or trains a model with a generative AI tool within the scope of employment and under your direction and control, you as the employer own the resulting content or trained model instead.
  • This ownership rule does not extend to content that infringes a pre-existing copyright or other intellectual property right, regardless of AI use.

These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.

What it makes you log

Logging duty

Act 927 assigns default ownership of a generative AI tool's output and of a trained model absent a contrary agreement. It imposes no duty to create, keep, or produce a log or record of any kind.

Kind
None
As of

What this law does

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Research summary

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Act 927 adds Ark. Code Ann. § 18-4-101, assigning default ownership of a generative artificial intelligence tool's output.

Absent a contrary agreement, the person who provides the input or directive to the tool owns the content it generates, and the person who provides the data or input used to train the tool owns the resulting trained model, provided the content or training data does not infringe an existing copyright or other intellectual property right and, for a trained model, that the training data was lawfully acquired and ownership was not otherwise transferred by contract.

Where an employee uses the tool to generate content or train a model within the scope of employment and under the employer's direction and control, the employer owns the result instead. The section grants no ownership over infringing content regardless of AI use. Approved .

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