February 22, 2024
Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund announces funding of $439,840 to 27 Australian organisations for projects in 2024. The grants support projects to benefit creative writers, publishers and visual artists. In addition to this funding, the Cultural Fund will support nine national Australian writers’ festivals held in 2024. The grants will fund panel sessions and interviews with […]
February 20, 2024
One of the criteria that determines if a resale is eligible for a royalty payment is when the owner of the work acquired it. If an artwork existed as at 9 June 2010 (the start of the scheme), there is no royalty payable on the first resale of that work. This means that a person […]
February 18, 2024
The Department of Industry, Science and Resources (DISR) recently announced the formation of a temporary AI reference group, which will operate until 30 June 2024 (here). The Group’s terms of reference are here, and its members are here (scroll to bottom of page). The group’s members have backgrounds in law (such as legal issues associated […]
February 15, 2024
On 30 January 2024, copyright management organisations for music composers in France and Germany (SACEM and GEMA) released the results of a study of the impacts on Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the music sector. You can see the organisations’ announcement here, a summary of the study here, and the full report here. The study: […]
February 13, 2024
On 6 February, the UK Government confirmed that a working group overseen by the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) had failed to reach agreement on a code of practice on copyright and Artificial Intelligence (AI). In its response to ‘A pro-innovation approach to AI regulation’ (here) the UK Government said: 28. Creative industries and media […]
February 7, 2024
On Friday 2 February, the ambassadors of the 27 Member States of the European Union (EU) unanimously approved the AI Act. This follows a political agreement in December 2023: see here. There is information about the status of the AI Act and next steps here. They include: 13 Feb: the European Parliament’s Committees vote 21 […]
February 4, 2024
In January, 12 organisations representing Canadian writers and publishers issued a joint statement on copyright and Generative artificial intelligence (AI). It opposes any changes to Canada’s copyright legislation to introduce new exceptions to train large language models for AI, or to give copyright protection to AI-generated products. You can see the statement here. You can […]
February 4, 2024
On 2 February, the House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee released its report on large language models and generative AI. You can see the Executive Summary here and the full report here. Chapter 8 of the report deals with copyright issues (here). The Executive Summary says: We have even deeper concerns about the Government’s […]
