---
title: "Quote a tool's terms on ownership and indemnity"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/practice/intellectual-property-patents-trade-marks-copyright-designs/review-a-generative-ai-tool-s-terms-for-ip-ownership-and-indemnities/united-states"
type: "task_jurisdiction_version"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "A23-B7-2-US"
practice_area: "Intellectual Property — Patents, Trade Marks, Copyright, Designs"
tier: "yellow"
lawyer_review: "required"
jurisdictions: ["US"]
last_reviewed: "2026-10-22"
---

# Quote a tool's terms on ownership and indemnity

> From the tool terms the lawyer loads, quote each sentence on who owns the output, what licence the vendor takes, and any indemnity, with the page. Add no conclusion about ownership.

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Last reviewed: 2026-10-22

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## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Practice area | [Intellectual Property — Patents, Trade Marks, Copyright, Designs](https://ailawframework.com/practice/intellectual-property-patents-trade-marks-copyright-designs.md) |
| Human involvement | Yellow: Lawyer and AI draft together |
| How AI is used | From the tool terms the lawyer loads, quote each sentence on who owns the output, what licence the vendor takes, and any indemnity, with the page. Add no conclusion about ownership. |
| What the lawyer must review | You decide what the terms do. Copyright vests initially in the author or authors under 17 U.S.C. § 201(a). Under § 201(b), the employer or other person for whom a work made for hire was prepared is considered the author and, unless the parties have expressly agreed otherwise in a written instrument signed by them, owns all of the rights comprised in the copyright. Section 106, subject to §§ 107 through 122, gives the owner the exclusive rights to reproduce the work, to prepare derivative works, to distribute copies or phonorecords to the public, to perform publicly the works paragraph (4) names, to display publicly the works paragraph (5) names, and, for sound recordings, to perform them publicly by digital audio transmission. A vendor clause transfers copyright ownership only if you decide it meets § 204(a). That section provides that a transfer of copyright ownership, other than by operation of law, is not valid unless an instrument of conveyance, or a note or memorandum of the transfer, is in writing and signed by the owner of the rights conveyed or the owner's duly authorized agent. Open § 101 before you treat the clause as a work made for hire or as a nonexclusive permission. The quotes are not that decision. |
| Written for | United States |
| Applies to | [Review a generative-AI tool's terms for IP ownership and indemnities](https://ailawframework.com/practice/intellectual-property-patents-trade-marks-copyright-designs/review-a-generative-ai-tool-s-terms-for-ip-ownership-and-indemnities.md) |

## Checking plan

- What the AI does: From the tool terms the lawyer loads, quote each sentence on who owns the output, what licence the vendor takes, and any indemnity, with the page. Add no conclusion about ownership.
- Basis: Checked against the linked sources on 22 October 2026. Confirm the current instrument before reliance.

## Notes

- Each vendor's terms still need your reading. Pulling the quotes does not finish the check.
- Do not treat a staff prompt or model training as fair use from this list. Open § 107 before that question, and open § 102 before you treat an output as a work of authorship.

## Sources

- [17 U.S.C. § 201 (ownership of copyright)](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/201) (checked 2026-10-22)
- [17 U.S.C. § 106 (exclusive rights in copyrighted works)](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/106) (checked 2026-10-22)
- [17 U.S.C. § 204 (execution of transfers of copyright ownership)](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/204) (checked 2026-10-22)

*Practice guidance for planning and review. Confirm current primary sources and the requirements of the actual matter. This is general information, not legal advice.*