Mark Gray

Mark Gray is Copyright Policy Counsel at OpenAI, where he advises the company on copyright law across the globe. He also advises the company on related issues, such as EU AI Act compliance and regulations regarding digital replicas.

Before joining OpenAI, Mark spent six years at the U.S. Copyright Office’s Office of the General Counsel, working on a variety of litigation, rulemaking, and counseling matters. Mark coauthored briefs in cases such as Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith and Thaler v. Perlmutter, and he served on the Copyright Office’s Review Board, which adjudicates final appeals of registration denials. Mark also helped shape the Office’s guidance on the copyrightability of material created by generative artificial intelligence and worked on three cycles of the Office’s triennial Section 1201 rulemaking.

Mark holds a J.D. from Berkeley Law School and a B.A. in Public Policy and International Affairs from Princeton University. He lives in San Francisco with a chihuahua named Link.