European Commission on trends and developments in AI
On Wednesday 25 November European Commission published an extensive Final Report on Trends and Developments in Artificial Intelligence in the EU.
The report takes a deep dive in copyright and patent protection for AI-generated or AI-assisted outputs, particularly in the fields of science, media, and pharmaceutical research. The report explains that the current state of the art of AI does not (yet) warrant radical changes of copyright and patent systems that are supposedly still flexible enough to adapt to the AI’s development. European Commission expressly emphasises the importance of related rights regimes to cover certain “authorless” AI productions where the classical copyright might fail. The Report also takes a look into the future and identifies certain areas where future legal reforms might be most sensible, all the while offering suggestions and recommendations for improvements of existing rules.
The Report in-full is available here. Take a look!
On Friday 23 June 2023, a webinar entitled “Copyright and Legal Basis for Generative Artificial Intelligence Training” was held as the inaugural event of an informal research network in the region in the field of copyright. Researchers from Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and North Macedonia participated in the event, which is part of the national Open Knowledge Day initiative and the national and regional coordination activities carried out by ODIPI under the auspices of Knowledge Rights 21.
The new report of the Knowledge Rights 21 project partner SPARC Europe is now available.
Open Data and Intellectual Property Institute ODIPI is organising a webinar on the topic of text and data mining copyright exception, titled “Copyright-legal basis for training generative AI”, as part of the national and regional coordination of the Knowledge Rights 21 programme, led by Dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič.
Maja Bogataj Jančič has been invited as a representative of the Open Data and Intellectual Property Institute to attend the User Rights Network and Library Copyright Alliance meetings in Washington DC.