December 21, 2023
On 6 December, the Association of American Publishers (AAP) filed comments with the US Copyright Office, rebutting claims made by artificial intelligence (AI) tech companies. AAP’s points include: these companies: have not sought to work with copyright owners, but have instead appropriated their intellectual property for commercial gain are not struggling startups but some of […]
December 21, 2023
UK’s Copyright Licensing Agency has recently released a report on attitudes to artificial intelligence (AI) in UK’s creative industries. Titled ‘Friend or Foe? Attitudes to Generative Artificial Intelligence Among the Creative Community’, its research of attitudes found that: 79% of respondents believe that the UK’s ability to earn from its creativity will be impacted by AI […]
December 21, 2023
On 8 December, the European Parliament and Council of the European Union reached a provisional agreement on proposed legislation to regulate artificial intelligence (AI). You can see the announcement from the European Council here and the European Parliament here. Each refers to next steps regarding agreed text and formal adoption. You can see IFRRO’s summary […]
December 21, 2023
On 17 December, the Government announced that it would implement the five recommendations in Treasury’s report of its review of the news media bargaining code. Information about the review is available here. A summary of the Code is set out on page 4 of the review’s consultation paper here. The Government’s response is available here. […]
December 21, 2023
On 4 December 2023, the Attorney General convened the fourth and final copyright roundtable of a series commenced in February 2023. You can see our earlier posts on the roundtables here and here. The roundtables considered five issues: orphan works, quotation, remote learning, definition of ‘broadcast’, and artificial intelligence (AI). Copyright Agency participated in each […]
December 7, 2023
The Attorney General announced on 4 December that the Government is establishing a Copyright and Artificial Intelligence (AI) reference group to better prepare for future copyright challenges emerging from AI. The announcement is here. The announcement followed a series of copyright roundtables initiated by the Attorney General in February 2023. You can see our earlier […]
November 7, 2023
Australia’s current copyright system facilitates AI developments that deliver economic and societal benefits for Australia, in a framework of ethical policies and practices. Australian governments should require AI developers to disclose the content that they are using in connection with AI. Among other things, this will assist copyright licensing. Australia’s copyright system facilitates innovation Australia’s […]
September 28, 2023
On 28 September, the Australian Society of Authors (ASA) issued a statement expressing the ASA’s deep concern, on behalf of its members, about the use of Australian books to train AI. You can view the statement here. You can view the article in the Atlantic about the Books3 dataset of nearly 200,000 pirated books, referred […]
