The fight between creators and Titans AI Tech on copyright law and licenses is warmed up. In a letter subject At the Office of Sciences and Technological Policy of the Trump administration on March 15, more than 400 actors, writers and administrators called on the government to respect the current copyright law.
The signatories include Paul McCartneyGuillermo del Toro, Ava Duvernay, Cynthia Erivo, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Ayo Edebiri, Chris Rock and Mark Ruffalo. The letter specifically requests the government not to grant exceptions for fair use of the training of technological companies.
Equitable use is a fundamental concept of copyright law which gives people an exception to use protected content even if they are not the holder of copyright, in limited and specific cases. Previously, AI companies, hunger of content generated by humans to train and improve their AI models, had to pay editors and content catalogs to access this equipment. An exception for fair use would allow technological companies to more easily access content without expensive legal obstacles.
Google and Openai proposed modifications similar to the Current Copyright Act in their Action Plan proposals of the AI of the Administration. Google wrote That such exceptions allow it to “avoid negotiations often very unpredictable, unbalanced and long with data holders during the development of the model”. OPENAI wrote This protection of fair use for AI is necessary to protect US national security.
Part of the recent government thrust around AI is concerns concerning the loss of global position and a technological advantage on the development of AI to adversaries like China. Ai Chinese, like Chatppt’s rival In depthcontinue to deal with but concerns abound on his security And Lack of railing.
In other words, technological companies like Google and Openai, each evaluated by market capitalization in hundreds of billions and billions of dollars, do not want to go through the established legal process and pay the rights of the content they need to make their ais competitive with those developed by China. And they want the Trump administration to codify the protections for them as part of its AI action plan.
Hollywood signatories firmly oppose the possibility of such rewriting of the Act respecting copyright. “America has not become a global cultural power by accident,” said the letter. “Our success stems directly from our fundamental respect for intellectual property and copyright which rewards the creation of creative risks by talented Americans and workers of all states and territories.”
The American copyright office was Advice development To how to manage copyright complaints for the content generated by AI. But people have been worried for years – and same prosecuted – How AI models are formed in a way that potentially violates the rights of copyright holders. The Dual Strikes in Summer 2023 by members of the Writers Guild of America and Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, or Sag-Aftra, Included Ai as one of their main concerns. Neither Openai nor Google shared exactly what content was their training databases for Chatgpt and Gemini.
The equation of copyright becomes even more complicated because we know at least one company that received a complaint to copyright For an image of which each part is generated by AI. It leaves room for uncertainty on each side of disorder which is copyright and AI.
Trump administration and AI
Until now, there has not been much significant progress on government surveillance or regulating legislation how technological giants like Openai and Google develop AI. The former Biden president has obtained many large technological companies in a pledge voluntarily Developing AI responsible for it and tried to promulgate railings around the development of AI via the executive order. But a few hours after being inaugurated, Trump back The executive decree of Biden de Biden with one of his family.
In his own executive order on AI, Trump said that he wanted to “maintain and improve the world domination of America ‘AI”. The AI action plan is how it plans to promulgate its version of technological policy. Vice-president Vance presented the plan, and more broadly the opinion of the administration on technology, at an international summit on AI in January.
Vance said: “When conferences like this come together to discuss advanced technology, often I think that our answer is to be too conscious, too wise risks. But I have never encountered a breakthrough in technology that so clearly calls us to do the exact opposite.”
In addition to the call for comments, on January executive decree President Trump called on American AI to be “free from ideological prejudices or technical social agendas”.
At the same time, technological leaders like Sundar Pichai and Sam Altman of Openai hid the new administration. Altman given A million dollars of his own money in the inauguration fund of Trump, and Google As a business gave the same thing. Altman and Pichai obtained seats in the front row for the oath ceremony, as well as Mark Zuckerberg de Meta, Elon Musk from X and Jeff Bezos from Amazon. The leaders probably hope that the good side of Trump will help them open the road to the future of their technological business – even if, in this case, this would upset decades of law on established copyright.
Many groups of people – not just creators – fear that unregulated development and use of AI will be disastrous.
What then comes for copyright and AI?
The American Copyright Office should publish another report on AI, in particular on the “legal implications for the training of AI models on works protected by copyright, license considerations and the distribution of all potential responsibility”.
Meanwhile, a certain number of active proceedings could define important precedents for the judicial branch. Thomson Reuters I just won his case That said, an AI company did not have a fair use case to use its content to create an AI. Legislation like the No counterfeit act Also go through the Congress, but we do not know what type of future AURA AUR.
For more, consult How to compete in AI and art in SXSW And Why the anti-a-a-aid pledge resonates with the creators.
