“Converging Realms” Conference
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”.
The international conference in Krakow will bring together scientists, lawyers, civil society and policy makers from across Europe to explore the ethical issues, practical challenges and opportunities related to artificial intelligence. The conference is organized by the Jagiellonian University, the virtual research center Future Law Lab (FLL) and the foundation Centrum Cyfrowe (FCC), which are committed to open content.
On Friday, September 27, 2024, as part of the 4th panel: Artificial intelligence+research, Dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič will present the Slovenian regulation of the text and data mining exception from the national Copyright and Related Rights Act (ZASP).
ODIPI is organizing ERA KR21 Conference: Barriers and Incentives for Open Science in the Copyright Law that will take place on 2 December, 2024 at Hotel Four Points by Sheraton (Mons) in Ljubljana and also online.
The District Court of Hamburg ruled in the case of Kneschke v. LAION e.V. that LAION did not infringe the copyright of photographer Kneschke, as the use of his photograph was covered by the exception for text and data mining (TDM) for scientific purposes.
“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?