Last week, the working group chairs in charge of developing the code of practice for providers of General Purpose AI models published the third draft of the code for comments and feedback. This is again a significant evolution of the language of the 2nd draft. And while there are some improvements on substance (especially for […]
Earlier this week, we submitted comments (available as a PDF file) to the UK Intellectual Property Office’s consultation on copyright and artificial intelligence (AI). Our contribution reflects COMMUNIA’s position that a general text and data (TDM) mining exception for scientific research is needed to enable any kind of research that relies on large amounts of […]
With all the hearings of Commissioners-designate in the books, we present to you our key insights for copyright policy. Unsurprisingly, copyright is only one among many concerns of von der Leyen’s second mandate. Nonetheless, it is a cross-cutting issue that will keep multiple members of her College busy. Two hearings stood out in particular: Ekaterina […]
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 […]
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 […]
This article was first published on Kluwer Copyright Blog on February 20, 2024. When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. This must have been the key insight at the Polish Culture and National Heritage Ministry when the new administration took over and discovered that more than 2.5 years after the implementation deadline, Poland still had to […]
At the end of 2023, we organised a final salon on the implementation of the Directive on Copyright and Related Rights in the Digital Single Market. Bulgaria had finally implemented the Directive, the second to last Member State to do so, and the moment seemed right to take stock of the implementation process one last […]
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 […]
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 […]
The legislative decree implementing the CDSM Directive in Italy was adopted on November 8th, 2021, and published in the Gazzetta Ufficiale on November 27th. It came into force on December 12th, 2021, amending the Italian Copyright Law (April 22nd 1941, n.633 – Legge sul diritto d’autore, referred to below as “LdA”). This blog post analyses […]
