Peter Nieves quotes
Peter Nieves is an award-winning IP lawyer. Taken from the AI Creator Summit, these 65 quotes focus on copyright, AI and law, prompts and IP, and trademarks.
Find a quote by what it means, play it on a scene with music, pick your favorite of 2, or make it an image. Quotes with a checked source come first.
Loading quotes…
No quotes here yet. Try another topic or person.
This is a list of the best Peter Nieves quotes.
In fact, you'll find 65 of them here, and 65 come with a source I checked.
So if you want the ideas straight from Peter Nieves, you'll love this page.
Here's what's inside:
- Best Peter Nieves quotes on AI & law
- Peter Nieves quotes on copyright
- Peter Nieves on trademarks
- Peter Nieves quotes on prompts & intellectual property
And I keep adding to it as I check more of Peter Nieves's quotes.
Best Peter Nieves quotes on AI & law
Peter has been writing patents on AI and neural networks for over 14 years. He sees creators unknowingly violating copyright law and uploading confidential data to public AI platforms.
It's kind of like somebody saying hey look, you want to be able to cut something, I'm gonna give everybody a scalpel.
But they're giving the scalpel to everyone from a toddler to a surgeon.
In the hand of a surgeon, it can do incredible work.
In the hand of a toddler, somebody's gonna get hurt.
Source: AI Creator Summit
AI is not like Microsoft Word.
AI is not like YouTube.
AI is not like TikTok.
It is a tool that learns.
Source: AI Creator Summit
What's used to train an AI model is actually directly related to what comes out of the model.
If I train the model with false information, what comes out of the model is false information.
Source: AI Creator Summit
Would you rather spend $100 or less or $100,000 to get out of a legal problem that you never should have been in in the first place.
Source: AI Creator Summit
The system in and of itself is a neural network, it learns.
We can't unlearn what it's already learned.
The content's already in there, we can't get rid of it.
Source: AI Creator Summit
AI is taking A, B, and C and creating derivatives of that, modifications of that to try to provide you with an answer.
It's not really creating from scratch.
It's creating from what's already been provided.
Source: AI Creator Summit
If all the parts of a car have been uploaded, you can create the car.
But you can't create a helicopter.
It can only give you from what it's been trained with.
Source: AI Creator Summit
The best software engineers are ones that can create from scratch.
Not people that are just creating what already exists.
Source: AI Creator Summit
Break it down to three parts.
What goes in, what comes out, and ownership.
On the what goes in, you should know what's going to happen with your content.
On the output side, you want to make sure that what comes out of AI, you can legally utilize.
If you do care about ownership, you have to figure out how to create yourself and use AI to enhance.
Source: AI Creator Summit
Everybody and their mother is speaking about AI.
But the issue is that they're not aware of the privacy issues, the can you own what you create using AI, the potential exposure to copyright trademark infringement.
Source: AI Creator Summit
Peter Nieves quotes on copyright
Peter's rule is simple: if AI created it, you don't own it under copyright law. That applies to books, apps, images, and code.
AI can give you ideas.
Ideas in and of themselves are not protectable.
What's protectable is the embodiment of the idea.
Source: AI Creator Summit
Copyright law directly impacts whether you can stop others from copying, making derivatives, displaying, showing to others.
If you don't own the copyright, then whatever you're making, anybody can copy it.
Source: AI Creator Summit
I tell AI, I want you to write a hundred page book.
And out comes a hundred page book.
I take that and plop it on Amazon.
I do not own the copyright on that book.
Source: AI Creator Summit
I have a dream and in the dream there's a little boy, he gets lost in the woods, a wolf finds him.
That's an idea.
It's nothing until I write it.
When I write it, it now becomes a written work.
Source: AI Creator Summit
If you own the copyright on something, the fact that you uploaded that copyrighted work to AI does not remove the copyright.
Uploading to AI does not remove it.
Your copyright still exists.
Source: AI Creator Summit
No technology has the ability to remove your copyright.
If you own the copyright, it's still your copyright.
Source: AI Creator Summit
They're creating apps through AI and they don't actually own them.
They believe they own them, but they don't because they're created by use of AI.
Source: AI Creator Summit
You're putting in your copyright notice telling the public that you own it when you actually don't.
Which means you're actually committing an offense.
You're not legally allowed to say that you own federal copyrights when you don't.
Source: AI Creator Summit
You're literally violating the law just by using the copyright notice because you're telling the public that you own something you don't.
Source: AI Creator Summit
If I upload my video, I still own my video.
It's not changing my video.
It's still mine.
Source: AI Creator Summit
Peter Nieves on trademarks
Peter has seen AI-generated logos that turned out to be federally registered trademarks belonging to other companies. Always search before using any AI-generated logo or name.
If a name is created using AI, the creativity came into the creation of the name.
But a trademark is basically the use of a name or a logo or a slogan as a source of identity.
Source: AI Creator Summit
If you use AI to create a wordmark and you do a trademark search and you see that there's nothing like it, yeah you could file a trademark for that if you're the only one to use it.
Source: AI Creator Summit
I've had countless times that I've used Logo AI, asked it to create a logo.
And when I did a federal trademark search, it was somebody else's federally registered trademark.
Source: AI Creator Summit
The measure to determine if you're potentially liable for trademark infringement is called likelihood of confusion.
That means maybe it's not the Nike swoosh, but it looks very similar.
So therefore you can be sued for using it.
Source: AI Creator Summit
These AI models are being trained using what.
Other people's content, other people's images.
So you may actually be getting a modification to something that actually belongs to another party.
Source: AI Creator Summit
Peter Nieves quotes on prompts & intellectual property
Peter says prompts written by humans are protectable under copyright law, but prompts written by AI are not. He believes prompt engineering will become a massive market.
If you want to be able to own the prompts that are giving you a technological edge over the competition, you need to write them yourself.
Then you need to protect those prompts.
Source: AI Creator Summit
Treat your prompts as if they're a valuable asset because they really are.
All the money is going to be in prompt engineering.
Source: AI Creator Summit
People are copying other people's prompts.
Well, prompts are protectable under copyright law.
So if somebody else sees that prompt and they copy it, they could be sued for copyright infringement.
Source: AI Creator Summit
If you use AI to write a prompt, do you own the prompt under copyright law.
No.
Source: AI Creator Summit
The people that are gonna make ridiculous amount of money are the prompt engineers who can figure out how to write a prompt that is so detailed, so verbose, that it's considered to be creative in and of itself.
Source: AI Creator Summit
If you're really good at writing prompts and you figure out how to write a certain prompt that results in a created work coming out of AI as also protectable under copyright law, you're going to make a ridiculous amount of money.
Source: AI Creator Summit
You've just allowed whoever employs you to own all the things that are going to be created using AI.
That's a big, big market.
That's going to be a massive market.
Nobody's talking about this.
Source: AI Creator Summit
FAQs about Peter Nieves
The questions people ask most about Peter Nieves, answered from Peter Nieves's own words.
"They're creating apps through AI and they don't actually own them. They believe they own them, but they don't because they're created by use of AI."
No. Peter Nieves says if AI created the creative element, you don't own the copyright.
That includes books, code, images, and videos.
You can use AI for ideas and editing, but the output itself is not yours to protect.
If you wrote the prompt yourself, yes.
If AI wrote the prompt, no.
Peter says human-written prompts are protectable and will become a massive market.
Peter says you don't own the parts AI created.
If you have a copyright notice on your app and parts were made by AI, you have an obligation to disclose which parts you don't own.
A body of law that covers the general look and feel of something.
If you clone someone's website or funnel using AI, you can be sued under trade dress and copyright law.
Peter has seen AI create logos that were already federally registered trademarks.
Always do a trademark search before using any AI-generated logo or name.
Peter warns about uploading client confidential information into AI platforms.
You could be violating NDAs and privacy rules.
Samsung engineers uploaded source code into ChatGPT and OpenAI said they couldn't remove it.
Peter Nieves compares distributing these tools to handing a scalpel to everyone from a toddler to a surgeon.
In the hands of a skilled professional the tool performs incredible work, but Nieves cautions that "in the hand of a toddler, somebody's gonna get hurt."
Nieves treats the technology as a learning neural network rather than standard software.
Peter Nieves advises people never to use someone else's likeness in videos without permission.
Nieves warns that "there's lawsuits that are happening right now" over unauthorized uses of a person's voice or face.
Taking someone else's likeness exposes the creator to legal action under copyright law.
Peter Nieves explains that uploading an original work into a model does not erase existing copyright protections.
According to Nieves, "No technology has the ability to remove your copyright."
Creators still retain ownership over uploaded videos or files even if systems use the data for training.
Most of them come from the AI Creator Summit.
Every quote with a checked source shows it under the quote, so you can read it there.
Navid Moazzez
AI business strategist & AI OS builder
Navid Moazzez helps creators and founders master AI and build their own AI Operating System (AI OS) to automate their business and life.
Navid.me is reader-supported. When you buy through links on this site, I may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more.
More famous quotes
More free tools
X
Bluesky
LinkedIn
Threads
Mastodon
Instagram
TikTok
Pinterest
YouTube
Amazon KDP
Apple Books
Amazon
Substack
Spotify
Apple Podcasts
Free AI newsletterThe most actionable AI newsletter for founders
Every week, get proven AI strategies, curated tools, and step-by-step systems to grow your audience, create better content, and build a profitable creator business.
No fluff, no filler, no BS. Just five minutes each week that might level up your online business and life.
P.S. Sign up now to get free access to my ultimate AI tools guide for creators.
