I wrote up some first thoughts on MEP Axel Vossâs draft report on generative #AI and #Copyright Beyond the back and forth on the TDM exception, the report offers valuable insights on how generative AI affects the sustainability of creative production, with proposals on remuneration and transparency. In my blog post, I explore where it aligns withâand differs fromâour recent white paper on the impact of GenAI on the sustainability of the information ecosystem:
https://openfuture.eu/blog/licensing-levies-and-the-limits-of-copyright/
đ New White Paper: "Beyond AI & Copyright: Funding a Sustainable Information Ecosystem."
@paulk examines how AI impacts information control, argues for public AI models, and proposes a levy system on commercial AI services to support the digital commons.
Read more: https://openfuture.eu/publication/beyond-ai-and-copyright/
Beyond AI and Copyright
A new report by @paulk
It highlights two key structural risks of AI-driven information access: the concentration of control over knowledge in the hands of a few powerful actors, and the erosion of the institutions and economic foundations that support human information production. To counter these trends, it calls for the development of public AI infrastructures and a broad redistributive framework to sustain the digital knowledge commons on which these models depend.
There is a bit of excitement in copyright circles about the first case referred to the CJEU that directly addresses the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and the EU copyright framework. The request for a preliminary ruling â Like Company v Google (C-250/25) â originates from the Budapest Capital Regional Court (Budapest KörnyĂ©ki TörvĂ©nyszĂ©k) and... Continue reading
Last week, the third draft of the Code of Practice for General Purpose #AI was released. It contains a rather curious limitation, as @paulk points out on the COMMUNIA blog. Is web scraping really the only concern for AI?
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https://communia-association.org/2025/03/21/is-web-scraping-the-only-copyright-concern-for-ai-the-code-of-practices-blind-spot/
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. We find a rather curious limitation that reduced the scope of the requirement âto put in place a policy to comply with Union law on copyright and related rightsâ to a set of commitments that mostly only deal with data obtained by âcrawling the World Wide Webâ.
We have just launched the website for the CommonsDB project where we are documenting our work on building a public registry for #PublicDomain and openly licensed works:
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