The struggle between creators and AI tech Titans over copyright and license is heated. In a letter submitted by the Policy of the Office for Science and Technology of Trump’s Administration 15th March 15, more than 400 actors, writers and directors called on the government to comply with the current copyright.
The signatories include Paul McCartney, Guillermo del Toro, Ava Duvernay, Cynthia Erivo, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Ayo Edebiri, Chris Rock and Mark Ruffalo. Specifically, the letter asks the government not to provide fair exceptions to the technology companies that AI train.
Fair use is a fundamental concept in copyright, which gives people an exception to the use of the protected content, even if they hold copyright, in limited and specific boxes. Previously, AI companies, which are hunger for a person -generated content to train and improve their AI models, should pay publishers and content catalogs for accessing this substance. The exception of fair use would facilitate technology companies access to content without expensive legal obstacles.
Google and Openi have proposed similar changes to the current copyright law at the AI Management Action Plan. Google wrote that such exceptions allow him to “often avoid very unpredictable, unbalanced and lengthy behavior with data holders during the development of the model”. OpenIi wrote that the protection of fair use for AI is forced to protect US national security.
Part of the recent government pressure is concerns about the loss of global status and the technological advantage over the development of AI for opponents such as China. The Chinese AI, as well as the Chatgpt Rival Deeeeeek, continues to process, but concerns its safety and lack of railings.
In other words, technology companies such as Google and Openi, each of which are awarded by the Hungs market ceiling and billions of dollars, do not want to go through an established legal process and to pay for the rights to the content they need to be competitive with those developed by China. And they want Trump’s administration to codify protection for them as part of their AI action plan.
Hollywood signatories strongly against the possibility of such a copyright rewrite. “America happened to have not become a global cultural power,” he reads the letter. “Our success stems directly from our basic respect for IP and copyright that rewards the creative risk of talented and hardworking Americans from each state and territories.”
The US Copyright Office is developing instructions on how to manage the Copyright Rights to the AI -generated content. For years, however, for years – and even sued – as AI models are trained to make the potential the right to hold copyright. Dual strikes in the summer of 2023 members from Writers Guild of America and Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, or SAG -FTRA, included AI as one of their main concerns. Neither Openai nor Google do exactly share what content their training databases for Chatgpt and Gemini.
The copyright equation is even more complicated because we know of at least one society that has been entitled to the copyright for a picture of which is generated by AI. It leaves space for uncertainty on each side of the mess that is copyright and AI.
Trump’s administration and AI
Until now, there has been great progress in government supervision or legislation that regulates how technical giants like Open and Google develop AI. President Biden’s training has forced many major technology companies to voluntarily promise AI responsibly and try to enact some Ait development railing through a executive order. But within hours of the opening ceremony, Trump returned Biden’s executive order AI with one of his own.
In his own executive order, Trump said he wanted to “keep and strengthen the American global dominance of AI”. The AI action plan is, as it plans to enact historical policy. Vice President Vance introduced the plan and more generally the opinion of administration on technology at the International Summit in January.
Vance said, “If, like this conference, such as this, which is suitable for discussing the technology, I think it is often self -confident, too aversion.
In addition to the challenge of feedback, the January executive order from President Trump demanded that the American AI be “without ideological bias or engineering social agendas”.
At the same time, technical leaders like Google Sundar Pichai and Sam Altman Openi Cozings are up to the new administration. Altman gave a million dollars of his own money to the inauguration fund inauguration and Google as a company gave the same thing. Altman and Pichai got the front row seats for the oath ceremony, along with Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, X’s Elon Musk and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos. The executives are likely to hope to get the good side of Trump’s good side to prepare a road for the future of their technology society – although in this case it would disrupt the decades of copyright law.
Many groups of people – not only creators – are afraid that unregulated development and use of AI could be disrupted.
What will be for copyright and AI?
The US Copyright Office is expected to publish one more report on AI, which is specific about “the legal consequences of AI models training on copyright works, about licensing considerations and assignment of any potential obligation”.
Meanwhile, a number of active litigation could determine the important previous one for the court of law. Thomson Reuters has just won his case that AI said that AI had a fair case of using its content to create AI. Legislation, such as the Notes Act, is also passing through Congress, but it is not clear where the future AI law will have.
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