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Public AI, Built On Open Source, Is The Way Forward In The EU

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Public AI, Built On Open Source, Is The Way Forward In The EU

Aquarter of a century ago, I wrote a book called “Rebel Code”. It was the first – and is still the only – detailed history of the origins and rise of free software and open source, b…

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Walled Culture Oct 16, 2024

German court: LAION’s generative AI training dataset is legal thanks to EU copyright exceptions

The copyright world is currently trying to assert its control over the new world of generative AI through a number of lawsuits, several of which have been discussed previously on Walled Culture. We now have our first decision in this area, from the regional court in Hamburg. Andres Guadamuz has provided an excellent detailed analysis of a ruling that is important for the German judges’ […]

#aiAct #andresGuadamuz #copyrightException #datasets #euCopyrightDirective #generativeAi #germany #Hamburg #laion #nonCommercial #research #tdm #textAndDataMining #training

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German court: LAION’s generative AI training dataset is legal thanks to EU copyright exceptions

<p>The copyright world is currently trying to assert its control over the new world of generative AI through a number of lawsuits, several of which have been discussed previously on Walled Culture. We now have our first decision in this area, from the regional court in Hamburg. Andres Guadamuz has provided an excellent detailed analysis …</p>

Walled Culture Mar 23, 2023

The EU has brought back opt-in copyright for text and data mining: let’s build on that foundation - @glynmoody
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The EU has brought back opt-in copyright for text and data mining: let’s build on that foundation

<p>The central theme of Walled Culture the book (free digital versions) is the clash between copyright, devised for an analogue world, and the Internet, which is inherently digital. There are many manifestations of the the bad fit of the two, but if I had to choose one step that doomed copyright in the online world …</p>