Photo by Possessed Photography on Unsplash Copyright protection in machine-generated works is not a new issue for law makers. The traditional concept of human authorship was first challenged with the…
Machine readable opt-outs from TDM As we head into the last month of the current EU legislative term, there are increasing signs that EU lawmakers are unable to agree on…
Image from DALL-E 3 Introduction Generative AI is disrupting the creative process(es) of intellectual works on an unparalleled scale. More and more AI systems offer services that push users’ production…
Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Welcome to the third trimester of the 2023 round up of EU copyright law! In this edition, we update you on what has happened…
…higher awareness about TDM than with the Stock Images providers. This awareness is manifested by either directly addressing TDM in their Terms of Use or Content License Agreements, or alternatively…
…whether using in-copyright works to train generative AI models is copyright infringement or falls under existing text and data mining (TDM) exceptions in the Copyright in Digital Single Market (CDSM)…
…and exceptions, both domestically and internationally. The EU has adopted two TDM exceptions that allow inter alia researcher organizations and commercial entities to perform text and data mining (TDM) activities…
…the Digital Single Market (CDSM) Directive, which cover TDM for scientific purposes (Article 3) and what is sometimes called “commercial” TDM (Article 4). For models like Midjourney, Dalle-E, or Firefly,…
…243, 244), seek to protect the ability of text and data mining researchers to use copyrighted content in their work. “Text and data mining” (“TDM”) describes any application of a…
…Market (CDSM) Directive in 2019, the European Union has harmonized the rules that apply to the use of copyrighted works for training ML systems. ML = TDM Articles 3…
