Artificial intelligence (AI), and generative AI in particular, holds great potential as a tool to assist, support and enhance human creativity. How can this positive potential be unlocked and what role does copyright law play in that respect? Last year, we addressed the “input” side of the equation with our Policy paper #15 on using […]
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 […]
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 […]
The European AI Office’s public consultation Future-Proof AI Act: Trustworthy General-Purpose AI wraps up tomorrow. This multi-stakeholder consultation is aimed at informing the drafting process of the first Code of Practice, which will detail the AI Act rules for providers of general-purpose AI models and general-purpose AI models with systemic risks. Earlier this month COMMUNIA […]
The end is in sight! After delays at (almost) every stage of the legislative process, the EU AI Act will soon be published in the EU’s official journal and eventually enter into force in August. This marks the end of more than 3 years of negotiations since the text was originally proposed by the European […]
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. […]
A fifth round of the trilogue negotiations on the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act is scheduled for October 24, 2023. Together with Creative Commons, and Wikimedia Europe, COMMUNIA, in a statement, calls on the co-legislators to take a holistic approach on AI transparency and agree on proportionate solutions. As discussed in greater detail in our Policy […]
In April of this year we published our Policy Paper #15 on using copyrighted works for teaching the machine which deals with the copyright policy implications of using copyrighted works for machine learning (ML) training. The paper highlights that the current European copyright framework provides a well-balanced framework for such uses in the form of […]
Artificial intelligence (AI) has taken the world by storm and people’s feelings towards the technology range from fascination about its capabilities to grave concerns about its implications. Meanwhile, legislators across the globe are trying to wrap their heads around how to regulate AI. The EU has proposed the so-called AI Act which aims to protect […]
The surge of generative artificial intelligence has gone alongside a renewed interest in questions about the relationship between machine learning and copyright law. In our newly published policy paper #15 entitled “Using copyrighted works for teaching the machine” (also available as a PDF file), we are looking at the input side of the equation within the […]
