Decisions · Policy · International

Implementing user rights for research in the field of artificial intelligence: a call for international action

Sean Flynn, Christophe Geiger, João Pedro Quintais, Thomas Margoni, Matthew Sag, Lucie Guibault and Michael Carroll · 2020 · Proposal · non-binding

42 European Intellectual Property Review 393 (2020)

AI training and copyright

Can AI be trained on protected works?

Closer to freely allowed

WIPO should help countries authorise text and data mining for research, including across borders

Why hereCloser to 'freely allowed': calls on WIPO to help countries authorise text and data mining for research, including across borders. Limited to research.

What it says

Responding to WIPO's conversation on IP and AI, the authors call for international leadership on text and data mining: WIPO should guide countries on mechanisms to authorise TDM research and serve as a forum for rules permitting cross-border TDM projects.

A transatlantic group of scholars asking for global research exceptions.

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