Sunday, June 18, 2023

Generative AI is a minefield for copyright law; The Conversation, June 15, 2023

 JD-PhD Student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School,  PhD Student in Media Arts and Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), The Conversation; ; Generative AI is a minefield for copyright law 

"While copyright law tends to favor an all-or-nothing approach, scholars at Harvard Law School have proposed new models of joint ownership that allow artists to gain some rights in outputs that resemble their works.

In many ways, generative AI is yet another creative tool that allows a new group of people access to image-making, just like cameras, paintbrushes or Adobe Photoshop. But a key difference is this new set of tools relies explicitly on training data, and therefore creative contributions cannot easily be traced back to a single artist. 

The ways in which existing laws are interpreted or reformed – and whether generative AI is appropriately treated as the tool it is – will have real consequences for the future of creative expression."

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