Copyright and Generative AI: Opinion of the European Copyright Society

AI training and copyright

Can AI be trained on protected works?

Allowed with limits

Text and data mining exceptions cover some training steps, not the whole AI life cycle

What it says

The opinion argues Articles 3 and 4 CDSM may cover some training operations but not every stage from dataset curation to user-prompted outputs, and calls for analysis of which acts and actors are involved, guided by authors' and performers' interests, users and the public, and innovation, including rights reservation, transparency and remuneration.

Leading EU copyright academics say current rules leave real gaps for AI.

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