The European Copyright Society (ECS) has published its Opinion on copyright and generative AI. The Executive Summary is reproduced below and the full Opinion is available here and here. Executive Summary The ECS considers that the current development of generative artificial intelligence (AI), under the regulatory framework set up by the Directive on Copyright…
Yesterday, the European Copyright Society (ECS) published its Opinion on the CJEU MIO/konektra cases C- 580/23 and C-795/23 (originality and infringement test of works of applied art). The Executive Summary is reproduced below and the full Opinion is available here: ecs-opinion-mio-konektra.pdf Executive summary Background. In Cofemel, the CJEU recognized that (i) the standard test…
Large language models’ (LLMs) greatest strength may also be their greatest weakness: their learning is so advanced that sometimes, just like humans, they memorise. This is not surprising, of course, because computers are really good at mainly two things: storing and analysing data. There is now empirical evidence that deep learning models are prone to…
Arts. 3 and 4 of the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive (CDSMD) introduced two exceptions for Text and Data Mining (TDM) in EU copyright Law. These two exceptions, despite having different objectives, share several similarities, as scholar analysis has shown. One of these common aspects is the requirement of lawful access. Only if…
Introduction The current international legal framework for text and data mining (TDM) is highly disharmonized, showing a variety of approaches that span from completely unregulated to partially and fully regulated. Furthermore, regulation is not uniform, and it addresses relevant stakeholders (creative and content industries, tech firms, users, research, and the public sector) in various ways….
This is the second installment of a reflection on the topic of content moderation and bias mitigation measures in copyright law. The first part of this post briefly discussed the concept of bias and examined the role of property rights in data and factual information, with a focus on copyright. This second part explores the…
Introduction This two-part blog post offers a reflection on the topic of content moderation and bias mitigation measures in copyright law. It explores the possible links between conditional data access regimes and content moderation performed through data-intensive technologies such as fingerprinting and, within the realm of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) algorithms. More specifically,…
CREATe Symposium: Glasgow, 8th-10th October 2019 CREATe, the UK Copyright & Creative Economy Centre at the University of Glasgow, is organising three days of events, public lectures and workshops (the CREATe Symposium 2019) to mark the start of a number of ambitious projects (as well as the continuation of others!) that will occupy us for the…
During the recent 25th anniversary conference of the IViR (2-4 July in Amsterdam) many interesting lectures were given and many intriguing panel discussions were held. In the unfortunate case you missed the conference, you can find several fotos and videos of the event on the webpage of the conference and on IViR’s YouTube channel. Readers of…
“However, another aspect attracted my full attention.” While preparing a post for this blog about the wonderful panel ‘Who owns the World Cup: The case for and against property rights in sports events’, that concluded IViR’s 25th anniversary conference, something unusual stopped me. I received an email from a colleague informing me that the videos…
