Étiquette : Copyright
AI & copyright: Anthropic benefits from fair use, but will have to compensate the theft of thousands of works
Coup de théâtre! A Californian judge has just ruled that Anthropic's LLM Claude's training with copyrighted works benefits from the "fair use" exception, provided the works were acquired legally. On the other hand, the AI developer's piracy of books is not covered by the exception, and must be compensated for…
IA & copyright : Anthropic bénéficie du fair use, mais devra réparer le piratage de milliers d’oeuvres
Coup de théâtre ! Un juge californien vient de décider que l’entraînement de Claude, le LLM d’Anthropic, avec des œuvres protégeés par le copyright bénéficie de l’exception pour « fair use », à condition que ces œuvres aient été acquises légalement. En revanche, le piratage de livres par le développeur…
LikeCompany vs Google: The Legal showdown between AI and Copyright Law nears Its conclusion
The Hungarian judge has asked the European Court of Justice about the interpretation of European law on the relationship between generative AI and copyright. The answers, which will not arrive for another 18 months, are eagerly awaited by the tech and creative sectors. It was a matter of time. We…
AI and copyright: the American trials (episode 4) – the Copyright Office versus fair use
The Copyright Office concludes in a pre-published report that the fair use exception should generally not apply when training generative AI tools with copyrighted works. The subject of the relationship between artificial intelligence and copyright continues to dominate the headlines in the USA, with over thirty lawsuits against Google, OpenAI,…
IA et droit d’auteur : les procès américains (épisode 4) – le Copyright Office contre le fair use
Le Copyright Office conclut dans un rapport pré-publié que l’exception de fair use ne devrait en général pas s’appliquer en cas d’entraînement d’outils d’IA générative avec des œuvres protégées. Le sujet des relations entre intelligence artificielle et droit d’auteur continuent de défrayer la chronique aux Etats-Unis, avec plus de trente…
Droit d’auteur : Donald Trump renvoie Shira Perlmutter !
L'éviction de Shira Perlmutter, directrice de l'Office américain des droits d'auteur, par Donald Trump suscite des inquiétudes quant à l'avenir du copyright face aux enjeux soulevés par l'intelligence artificielle et les intérêts des géants technologiques. Le président Donald Trump a décidé de limoger Shira Perlmutter, directrice de l'Office américain des…
The creative sector, on the IA Act: « no code of practice would be better than the fundamentally flawed third draft »
Nearly forty organizations from the cultural sector believe that instead of fulfilling the mission of strengthening copyright enforcement by AI developers on the basis of the AI Act, the European Commission's current work on the future code of good practice on AI makes these rights less effective. The creative sector…
Crispin Hunt, PRS : “the EU framework which the UK government is seeking to build its own proposals upon has not facilitated licensing”
The British creative world is currently taking strong action against a proposal by their government to enshrine in law an exception that would allow AI developers to use works without permission, unless their rights holders exercise an "opt out". Among these actions, the release of a silent album, and the…
Copyright : IA Summit falls short of existing international agreements
Despite the Emmanuel Macron’s great reluctance to acknowledge the relevance of this subject, the principle of respect for copyright by generative AIs was given lip service in the final declaration of the AI Action Summit, which nonetheless adds nothing new in relation to the Hiroshima Process. We had been following…
OECD announces notification system for International Code of Conduct on AI
The OECD introduces a notification system that will verify compliance by generative AI developers with their commitments under the Hiroshima Process Code of Conduct. At the end of 2023, G7 members agreed on principles underpinning artificial intelligence at global level, and presented an international Code of Conduct, which AI developers…
L’OCDE annonce un système de notification pour le Code de Conduite international sur l’IA
L’OCDE présente un système de notification qui permettra de vérifier le respect des engagements des développeurs d’IA générative dans le cadre du Code de Conduite du processus d’Hiroshima. Fin 2023, le G7 s’est accordé sur des principes fondant l’intelligence artificielle au niveau mondial, et a présenté un Code de Conduite…
EU: Germany calls for end to copyright exception benefiting to text and data mining
The subject is technical but fundamental to the AI dossier in Europe: Germany is backing a revision of the 2019 Copyright Directive to remove the "text and data mining" exception. Many AI developers explain that they have relied on this exception to train their tools. In 2019, the legislator introduced…
IA: France Digitale proposes the return of the flat-rate proposal to rightholders… a scandal, say authors
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…
Glenn Micallef: the creative sector needs to use AI and the EU will help them do it
Glenn Micallef, Commissioner-designate for Culture, Education and Sport, will be heard by the European Parliament on Monday November 4. Among his priorities is the establishment, with future Vice-President Henna Virkkunen, of a "European strategy on artificial intelligence for the cultural and creative sectors." At the heart of this strategy is…
Applying the AI Act to generative AI: a jangling process
The European Commission has just begun the process of applying the AI Act to generative AI, involving nearly a thousand stakeholders. Many of them are complaining, whether about the cacophony of the process, the unsatisfactory content of the text itself, or the lack of representativeness. To make the IA Act…
Bjorn Ulvaeus calls on Belgian EU Presidency to advance copyright in AI
Belgium took over the presidency of the EU Council a few days ago. It was in this context that CISAC president Bjorn Ulvaeus met with the Belgian prime minister, in order to obtain a favorable vote in the Council on the transparency of generative AI. As we reported here, the…
Copyright Directive implementation: SAA says authors deserve better
On the occasion of the Lux Awards ceremony, European film and audiovisual authors ask Member States to implement extensively the Copyright Directive. The Lux Audience Award, a ceremony organized every year by the European Parliament since 2007, is awarded today in Strasbourg. The objective of this prize is, explains the…
Mixed reactions on the Commission’s Copyright guidance
Broadcasters, producers, CMOs, platforms are not very enthusiastic about the Commission's guidance on Article 17 of the Copyright Directive, far from it. They point out that the Commission goes far beyond the text of Article 17, introduces new obscure concepts, and does not provide elements to define basic notions. A…
Copyright Directive: MEPs hold the EU Commission to account
Last week, a very tense meeting took place between members of the European Parliament, and representatives of the European Commission and Member States, on the interpretation of Article 17 of the Copyright Directive. Thierry Breton's cabinet, which was invited, did not participate. A group of MEPs of all political stripes…
Copyright directive : Germany favors platforms over culture
Germany's copyright directive transposal project sides with platforms, by reducing their obligations when pirated content is downloaded. In doing so, it goes beyond the text adopted by the European institutions and makes it impossible to licence certain types of content, explained representatives of music, audiovisual, cinema, photography, publishing, of the…
EU Commission wants to strengthen European intellectual property
In a report, the European Commission describes the hazardous situation of European intellectual property, and introduces an action plan. It includes the setting up of a genuine European patent at a maximum cost of 10,000 euros, as well as an update to the protection of designs. At the heart of…
DSA reports from the European Parliament : the Copyright directive at risk
The European Parliament has adopted its three initiative reports aimed at influencing the future Digital Services Act proposal of the European Commission. What the Commission will be able to retain from these proposals is uncertain, as some of them lack substantiation, some are contradictory, and some are at odds with…
La Cour Suprême accepte de juger l’affaire Oracle/Google
La Cour Suprême des États-Unis a décidé d'accepter le recours de Google dans l'affaire Oracle. La décision la Cour aura forcément des répercussions sur la définition du fair use, et sur ce que Google doit, ou non, payer à Oracle pour son utilisation d'environ onze mille lignes du code Java…
Licences musicales : les Etats-Unis lancent une consultation
Le Ministère de la Justice américain (DOJ) a annoncé l'ouverture d'une consultation sur le système des Consent Decrees, transaction judiciaire datant de 1941 et qui sous-tend les licences dont dépendent les droits des auteurs-compositeurs et producteurs américains. Dès février, les organisations d'auteurs-compositeurs outre-Atlantique avaient fait savoir au Ministère de la justice qu'elles étaient…
Helen Smith, Impala : « le débat sur la directive droit d’auteur est instrumentalisé aux fins de créer une fausse division entre créateurs et citoyens »
Helen Smith est la présidente exécutive d'IMPALA, l'organisation représentant les indépendants de la musique au niveau européen. Dans ce cadre, elle travaille sur une variété de sujets allant du financement de la culture, aux programmes culturels européens en passant, bien entendu, par la directive droit d'auteur. Elle nous parle de chacun d'eux en…
La grogne contre Google Images fédère de plus en plus d’ayants droit
La plainte des créateurs d'images contre Google Images, lancée en 2013 auprès de la Commission Européenne, prend de l'ampleur. Après l'Union des Photographes Professionnels en 2014, c'est au tour de l'EVA, qui représente 25 organisations de gestion collective, de rejoindre les plaignants réunis au sein du Syndicat Européen des Agences et sources photographiques…
Un entêtement qui pourrait couter 9 milliards de dollars à Google !
Lors d'une audition dans l'affaire qui oppose Google à Oracle, Larry Page a contredit les avocats de sa propre société et surtout la Cour Suprême des États-Unis, en estimant que selon lui le "declaring code" (code introductif) n'est pas du code. C'est un entêtement qui pourrait couter quelques milliards à Google. "For…