We are all copyright. Why do you need to pay attention to AI and copyright

Most of us are often not thinking of copyright in our daily life. But in the era of obstetric artificial intelligence, it soon became one of the most important issues in the development and outputs of Chatbots and the generators of photo and video. It is something that affects us all because we are all copyright and authors.

Unfortunately, copyright and Amnesty International are a bit of chaos. The race does not appear to develop the most advanced artificial intelligence models any sign of slowdown any time soon. In order to create these forms of the next generation, technology companies are looking for a lot of high -quality content and human creation. They need these works to make artificial intelligence models better, whether it gives Chatbot a more life character or generator of more artistic patterns to refer to. On the other hand, artificial intelligence lovers may wonder whether it is possible to obtain copyright protection for creative works that support artificial intelligence.

Most of the artificial intelligence companies have been very mysterious about the content they use, which led to more than 30 lawsuits that surpass the US courts. You may have heard about some of the most prominent, such as New York Times V. Openai, Where the publisher claims that I wanted to use the correspondents’ stories literally without an appropriate support or permission. (Disclosure: Zif Davis, the parent company CNET, in April, filed a lawsuit against Openai, claimed that it had violated the copyright of the Ziff Davis in training and operating artificial intelligence systems.) I mentioned Spread Research database Among all books protected by copyrights that are likely to be pirated, it has been claimed that the company used it without permission to train artificial intelligence.

I spend a lot of time thinking about publishing rights and AI in my work to report the creative services of Amnesty International. I met with intellectual property lawyer, I spoke with many of the creators concerned and spent a lot of time breaking the legal agents of government agencies. I used this experiment to make this evidence what you need to know about copyright in the era of artificial intelligence, which we will keep up to update as things change.

What is copyright?

Copyright is a set of rights expressed that protect “the original authorship of authorship in any concrete means of expression, which have now been developed or later developed, which can be realized, reproduced or connected in another way,” according to the 1976 Copyright Law.

In other words, copyright is legal protection that gives original authors rights and control their original actions. Protection of copyright can apply to books, art, music, movies, computer programs, blogs, architectural designs, plays, designs and more. We are all copyright. like The copyright office in the United States He puts it: “Once you create an original work and repair it, such as taking a picture, writing a poem or blog or recording a new song, you are the author and the owner.”

There are in two ways, copyright intersects with artificial intelligence. On the output side, people who use artificial intelligence services such as Chatbots and image generators want to know if their work that supports artificial intelligence is qualified to protect copyrights. On the development side, there are a lot of concerns about artificial intelligence companies using illegal copyright materials. This is what we know yet.

Can I copy the copyright or text I created with artificial intelligence?

As with many legal questions, the answer is: that depends.

Our guidelines on this question are primarily from the Publishing Rights Office for the United States, which is the Federal Agency responsible for the Department of Publishing Rights. The office issued a series of reports on artificial intelligence and copyright with the latest guidelines. In the second report, the office She kept her position Pictures and videos that are fully created by artificial intelligence are not eligible to protect copyright.

However, there are a number of artificial intelligence editing tools now. Do not use these tools to create a sentence, but they use Gen AI to do things like adding or removing objects or actors in the afternoon or refining the sound and video. You can still register and possibly get the protection of copyright for the edited content, but you should reveal your use of Amnesty International. in General Registry PortalYou can see in the notes how people used artificial intelligence to create their copyright work.

Is it possible to use copyright content to train artificial intelligence?

The basic hypothesis in the law of copyright is that the rights holder – usually the original creator, and sometimes in other cases the person’s employer can – can decide how they want to use their business. In many cases, owners choose their content license; This allows persons to use copyright -based work, for a fee, with appropriate support. Therefore, if the author of the copyright wants to give the permission of Amnesty International to use its content to train artificial intelligence models, then there is nothing wrong or illegal in that. Many publishers, including Financial Times and Axel Springer Brands, have collected millions of dollars with artificial intelligence companies to do so.

Problems arise when artificial intelligence companies use copyright -protected content without receiving permission from copyright. This is what the creators claim in many lawsuits, including a collective lawsuit led by the understood artist Carla Ortiz Against artificial intelligence. There are currently more than 30 active lawsuits between artificial and creative intelligence companies due to copyright concerns.

Contracts of the Copyright Law says that such use, without permission, is not allowed. Some creators claim that technology companies violate copyright. Violation occurs when the work of copyright is reproduced “cloned, distributed, implemented, displayed, or converted into a derivative work” without permission from the copyright holder, such as the Copyright Office identification He – is.

It will be up to the courts to decide whether the use of copyrights in developing artificial intelligence reaches the threshold of violation. Meanwhile, many technology companies are trying to follow alternative solution: exception to fair use.

What is fair use, and what is its relationship with AI?

The doctrine of just use is an essential part of the Copyright Law, and it is part of the 1976 copyright law. The fair use of people allows the use of copyright content without explicit permission for a pregnant woman for specific purposes. In the pre -AI era, just cases of use included a teacher using a copyright -protected book for educational purposes or a correspondent referring to the work of copyright in news coverage. There are four factors that help determine whether to use someone can be eligible for fair use, including:

1. The purpose of use: How can a person who uses copyrights use it? Commercial interests – whether someone can earn money from use – is important here.

2. The nature of the copyright work: What is the actual coordination of the disputed action – is it realistic like an article in newspapers or creativity, such as artwork?

3. The amount of use and major: How much is the copyright work that someone wants to use? Even if it is just a little, if the “heart of the work”, it may not be eligible to get a fair defense.

4. Impact on the market: Using a proposed copyright work in a proposed manner, will this be competing with the original author? What is the impact of this on the largest market?

There are questions about each worker when it comes to fair use, and Christian Mamin, a lawyer for intellectual property and administrative partner at the Womble, Bond and Dickinson law firm, told me in an interview. There is also a discussion about whether fair use factors apply to the inputs of artificial intelligence, or or both. “Does this apply to the input side, as you take the entire work in these training data, or does it apply to the aspect of the outputs, where there may be a small effect that cannot be recognized by any specific work in the output?” Mamamin said.

Technology companies pay hard to obtain an exception for fair use because it will allow them to use copyright content without contacting every rights holder and paying licensing fees. For companies like Openai and Google, which has already spent billions of dollars on development, the exclusion of fair use will save time and great money. Google He said This fair use will allow him to continue innovation quickly; Openai took a parallel approach He said This innovation is an artificial intelligence that is not due to the security of the issue of national security.

Giving Carte Blanche to operate Amok with copyright content is not enthusiastic for creators. In March, more than 400 books, actor and director An open message signed The Trump administration asked not to give Openai and Google to exclude fair use. they books Google and Openai “argue to obtain an exemption from the private government so that they can exploit the creative industries and American knowledge freely, despite their large revenues and available money. There is no reason to weaken or eliminate the protection of copyrights that helped America to prosper.”

Publishing Rights Office It was mainly disposed of from the issue of fair useSaying in its third report that there may be cases in which a case can be submitted for fair use, but there are times that do not meet the necessary criteria. Without federal legislation, we will likely wait for some or all these court decisions to determine a new legal precedent for copyright and fair use in the era of artificial intelligence.

What does all this mean for the future?

Copyright owners in a decade style at the present time. But in addition to the legal and moral effects, copyright in the era of artificial intelligence raises important questions about the value of creative work, the cost of innovation and the methods we need or must have government interference and protection.

Mamin said that there are two distinct ways to display the intellectual property laws of the United States. The first is that these laws were enacted to encourage and reward human prosperity. And the other is more economic focus; The things we create have value, and we want our economy to be able to realize this value accordingly.

“For most of our history, the humanitarian approach and industrial policy approach was somewhat aligned,” said Mamin. However, the Improvised IQ has highlighted the various methods of copyright and IP.

“Are these laws in the first place as an issue of industrial economic policy, or are they present as part of a humanitarian approach that is estimated and encouraged human prosperity through the reward of human creators?” He asked Mamin. “On the highest and most abstract level, I say this is one of the questions that these discussions force.”