Copyright and the training of generative AI models (Urheberrecht und Training generativer KI-Modelle)

AI training and copyright

Can AI be trained on protected works?

Only with permission or pay

Training generative AI is copyright infringement that the EU text and data mining exception doesn't cover

The model as a copy

Is a trained model a copy of its training works?

Closer to a copy of its training works

Training works are fully or partly replicated inside the model

What it says

Combining legal and computer science analysis, the study finds that generative models memorise parts of their training data, that training is not text and data mining in the sense of the EU exception, and that providers outside the EU are bound by EU copyright when their systems are offered in the EU.

The leading interdisciplinary study for rightholders; commissioned by the Initiative Urheberrecht.

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