AI, Fair Use and the Fight for the Future of Content Creation *

AI, Fair Use and the Fight for the Future of Content Creation *

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) platforms are consuming copyrighted works at an astonishing rate. Photos, artwork, music, and written text are being taken to train AI platforms. The data being consumed by AI to train platforms comes variously from licensed databases, web scrapping that often exceeds terms, conditions and permissions, and sometimes even from knowingly pirated source material.

Those who taking these works without permission claim the wholesale taking (which isn’t contested) is fair use and/or that they are not copying expression at all, but rather only taking facts. Copyright owners, associations, and companies that exist by creating and monetizing their creations take a wholly different view, arguing that the wholesale copying of creative, expressive, copyrighted works is precisely copyright infringement and is not fair use. Regardless of your viewpoint, it is clear that excusing the wholesale copying of expression as fair use will significantly alter the creative landscape.

This panel will discuss the copyright infringement actions filed against AI platforms by content creators, the alleged copyright infringement, whether the actions by AI developers constitute fair use, and the future of content creation.

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Reference Materials

Is AI’s Copyright World Flat, or Will AI Flatten the Copyright World?

German Court Says Non-Commercial AI Training Data Meets Scientific Research Exception to Copyright Infringement

California Court Issues Mixed Order in Pivotal AI Copyright Case

New York Times Takes on OpenAI, Microsoft