In a report published yesterday, France Digitale proposes forcing authors to accept the training of generative AIs with their works, in return for a flat fee. Sacem responds to this suggestion in the negative. « We are convinced that giving in to the opposition between innovation and culture is a futile battle that risks benefiting neither European companies nor content producers » explains France Digitale in a report on generative AI and copyright published yesterday. A priori, this position does not seem opposed to that expressed by Björn Ulvaeus, President of the international authors’ organization CISAC, among others, but also by many representatives of culture around the world and in France, who are happy to see this technology develop, provided that their rights are respected. Yet copyright is precisely the right to authorize or prohibit the use of a work. Yet France Digitale, in its report, suggests putting an end to this right to authorize for the purposes of training generative AI. According to the organization, developers should be…
