Artificial intelligence

GESAC has co-signed an open letter calling for meaningful obligations on AI systems to ensure the lawful use of copyright-protected content.

The European Parliament proposes to oblige AI providers to record the data used to train AI, including material protected under copyright law, and to make this available in a sufficiently detailed way for rightholders to identify and enforce their rights.

In the joint letter, the rightholders coalition is asking three key improvements to the text:

• Making sure that the use of protected content for the design and development of AI models requires creators/rightholders’ consent.
• Improving the transparency obligations introduced in the European Parliament text and adding a provision of ‘shift of burden of proof’ or ‘presumption of usage’ when there isn’t sufficient transparency.
• Extraterritorial application of EU laws so that wherever the development or training process takes place, the EU rules (hence the need for authorization) should be required from the AI systems that are available to consumers in the EU.

Read the full letter here.

Read GESAC’s full reaction to the European Parliament’s vote in favor of including Generative AI systems and requiring them to respect copyright is significant here.