Dataset Ownership in the Era of Large Language Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05921v1
• Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2025 04:35:08 GMT
• Title: Dataset Ownership in the Era of Large Language Models
• Authors: Kun Li, Cheng Wang, Minghui Xu, Yue Zhang, Xiuzhen Cheng,
• Abstract summary: Traditional legal mechanisms fail to address the technical complexities of digital data replication and unauthorized use.<n>This survey provides a comprehensive review of technical approaches for dataset copyright protection.<n>We synthesize key techniques, analyze their strengths and limitations, and highlight open research challenges.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: As datasets become critical assets in modern machine learning systems, ensuring robust copyright protection has emerged as an urgent challenge. Traditional legal mechanisms often fail to address the technical complexities of digital data replication and unauthorized use, particularly in opaque or decentralized environments. This survey provides a comprehensive review of technical approaches for dataset copyright protection, systematically categorizing them into three main classes: non-intrusive methods, which detect unauthorized use without modifying data; minimally-intrusive methods, which embed lightweight, reversible changes to enable ownership verification; and maximally-intrusive methods, which apply aggressive data alterations, such as reversible adversarial examples, to enforce usage restrictions. We synthesize key techniques, analyze their strengths and limitations, and highlight open research challenges. This work offers an organized perspective on the current landscape and suggests future directions for developing unified, scalable, and ethically sound solutions to protect datasets in increasingly complex machine learning ecosystems.

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