US EditionEU lawmakers want AI to pay for using copyrighted work
Lawmakers seek fair pay and full disclosure from AI providers on training data use to protect creators and news media rights under expanded EU copyright laws.
- Wednesday, EU lawmakers demanded generative AI providers pay for using copyrighted European content and argued EU copyright law should apply to all generative AI systems regardless of training location.
- Parliamentary research found uncertainty about how rules should apply to general-purpose AI systems and said text-and-data-mining exceptions remain unclear, stressing the news media industry should control training use.
- German EU lawmaker Axel Voss said creators deserve transparency, legal certainty, and fair compensation if copyrighted works train AI systems, while the adopted committee document is itself copyrighted and requires written permission for reproduction.
- Adopted by a wide committee majority, the report will go to a full parliament/plenary vote in March as lawmakers urged the European Commission to ensure adequate payment for protected content use.
- Building on the EU's 2024 AI rules, the committee action requires copyright compliance and precedes a planned review of copyright rules this summer.
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(Credit: Unsplash) This article is brought to you in association with the European Parliament. Rightsholders of protected content should be able to opt out of artificial intelligence (AI) training and automated data crawling AI providers and deployers should be transparent about the protected content used to train their systems Rightsholders must be properly remunerated and the EU press and creative sectors must be protected Access to high…
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