“Can copyright bring artificial intelligence to its knees? Which other circumstances may cause that the “making” of generative AI can dramatically change in the (near) future. This short paper presents potential challenges that copyright poses to the training of the machines on large amount of data. Different jurisdictions address these issues differently. In the USA the legality of these activities is tested in several court cases. Do gentlemen’s agreements and pragmatic symbiosis known from the “search engines business model” provide sufficient basis and/or incentive for the business model of “making” generative AI business model as well?

On Friday, September 27, 2024, the last day of the international conference “Converging Realms: Law, Technology, and Society in the Age of Ethical and Multi-Agent AI” took place. Dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič took part in the 4th panel entitled Artificial Intelligence+Research.

Today, September 26, 2024, a specialist training for persons who will perform the role of data stewards or related profiles of data experts was organized by the Central Technical Library (CTK) at the University of Ljubljana as part of the SPOZNAJ project, at which Dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič also lectured on the subject of open science and copyright.

At the end of this week, between September 26 and September 27, 2024, Dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič will attend the international conference “Converging Realms: Law, Technology, and Society in the Age of Ethical and Multi-Agent AI”.

On Monday, September 16, 2024, a public debate took place at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science of the University of Ljubljana on legal, ethical and technical issues regarding the large language model for Slovenian language as part of the PoVeJMo project.

The Second Circuit ruled that the operation of the Open Library Internet Archive cannot be considered fair use and that it violates the copyright of publishers. Such a final decision is extremely harmful, especially because it suggests that all libraries are bad for authors, because they are supposed to discourage them from writing because books are free to borrow.

We invite you to the webinar The AI ​​Orphan?, which will take place on September 27, 2024 at 3pm CEST.

Knowledge Rights 21 (KR21) has published a document explaining the KR21 policy on artificial intelligence (Policy Paper on AI).