On December 19 2024, the European AI Office published a second draft (download as a PDF file) of the General Purpose AI Code of Practice. This is the second of a series of drafting rounds planned until April 2025. An analysis of the first draft is also available on our blog. Following the release of […]
As a parting gift, in December the Hungarian Council presidency published its summary of Member States’ contributions to the policy questionnaire on the relationship between generative Artificial Intelligence and copyright and related rights. The questionnaire, which was presented at the Copyright Working Party meeting of 3 July 2024 gave Member States the opportunity to provide […]
Two weeks ago, the European AI Office published the first draft of the General Purpose AI Code of Practice. The first in a series of four drafting rounds planned until April 2025, this “high-level” draft includes not only principles, a structure of commitments (a descending hierarchy of measures, sub-measures and key performance indicators) and high-level […]
This article was first published on the Open Future blog on October 10, 2024. Two weeks ago, the Landgericht Hamburg decided the case LAION vs Kneschke. The latter – a photographer – had sued LAION for including one of his pictures in the LAION-5B training data set, claiming that this amounted to copyright infringement. The […]
On October 2nd, COMMUNIA was invited to contribute to an event by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Future of Work programme in Brussels entitled “Rebooting the debate: Generative AI and creative work.” COMMUNIA President and Open Future Policy Director Paul Keller provided a keynote speech on the current legal framework on copyright and AI, noting that Articles 3 […]
Earlier this week, COMMUNIA member Open Future, together with Mozilla, published a proposal for the implementation of the AI Act’s training data transparency requirement. The paper includes a blueprint for the transparency template for developers of GPAI models that the EU AI Office will need to develop over the next 12 months. The AI Act […]
As we approach the final decisions on the AI Act, with the member state vote scheduled for Friday of this week, there are still rumblings of discontent among member states. Surprisingly, one of the most prominent sticking points is the French government’s dissatisfaction with parts of the copyright transparency provisions in the final compromise text. […]
With Christmas fast approaching, on December 8, the European Parliament wrapped up one of its biggest presents of the mandate: the AI Act. A landmark piece of legislation with the goal of regulating Artificial Intelligence while encouraging development and innovation. In sticking with the holiday theme, the last weeks of the negotiations have included everything […]
Before the trilogue, COMMUNIA issued a statement, calling for a comprehensive approach on the transparency of training data in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act. COMMUNIA and the co-signatories of that statement support more transparency around AI training data, going beyond data that is protected by copyright. It is still unclear whether the co-legislators will be […]
That’s what we thought when we agreed to join the latest episode of the AI lab. podcast, fittingly titled “AI & the quest for transparency”. Over the course of 20 minutes, Teresa walks the listeners through some of the key questions when it comes to the training of generative AI models and how it affects […]
