IA Act: culture disappointed by the Commission’s work on copyright compliance by AI developers
Just weeks before the publication of a Code of Practice by the European Commission as part of the European Regulation on AI, the creative sector is no longer hiding its disappointment, and points out that as written, the third draft of the text, far from avoiding lawsuits, would make them inevitable. The cultural sector is holding out less and less hope that respect for intellectual property rights by generative AI will be guaranteed by the process of implementing the European AI Regulation (AI Act), currently underway in Brussels. In mid-2024, the European Commission launched a major effort to draft a « Code of Practice » based on the AI Act. This was intended,… among others, to make the Act’s provisions on copyright compliance by AI developers more concrete – they…