https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/12/us_copyright_office_ai_copyright/
The head of the US Copyright Office has reportedly been fired, the day after agency concluded that builders of AI models use of copyrighted material went beyond existing doctrines of fair use. The office’s opinion on fair use came in a draft of the third part of its report on copyright and artificial intelligence. The first part considered digital replicas and the second tackled whether it is possible to copyright the output of generative AI. …
https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/12/uk_creatives_ai_letter/
More than 400 of the UK’s leading media and arts professionals have written to the prime minister to back an amendment to the Data (Use and Access) Bill, which promises to offer the nation’s creative industries transparency over copyrighted works ingested by AI models. … The UK government proposes to allow exceptions to copyright rules in the case of text and data mining needed for AI training, with an opt-out option for content producers. …
From 2023 and 2024 respectively :
https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/15/house_of_lords_ai_copyright/
“I’m a little bit cautious about the idea of forcing companies that are building AI to enter into bespoke agreements with individual rights holders or an order to pay for content that doesn’t have economic value for them.”
https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/28/microsoft_ceo_ai/
“I think that with respect to content that is already on the open web, the social contract of that content since the 1990s has been it is fair use,”
/sarcasm
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