On the Evidentiary Limits of Membership Inference for Copyright Auditing

Published in Under Submission, 2026

Under submission. This work examines the evidentiary limits of membership inference attacks for copyright auditing, questioning their reliability as evidence of unauthorized training data usage.

@article{ertan2026evidentiary,
  author       = {Murat Bilgehan Ertan and Emirhan B\"{o}ge and Min Chen and Kaleel Mahmood and Marten van Dijk},
  title        = {On the Evidentiary Limits of Membership Inference for Copyright Auditing},
  journal      = {CoRR},
  volume       = {abs/2601.12937},
  year         = {2026},
  url          = {https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2601.12937},
  doi          = {10.48550/ARXIV.2601.12937},
  eprinttype   = {arXiv},
  eprint       = {2601.12937}
}