Maja Bogataj Jančič publishes a paper titled “Can AI be the Author of a copyright work?”
Dr Maja Bogataj Jančič has published a scientific paper entitled “Can AI be the Author of a copyright work?”.
In the paper, Dr Maja Bogataj Jančič addresses the questions of how copyright law can restrict the use of artificial intelligence and whether products generated by artificial intelligence can be protected by copyright. The article was published in a scientific monograph entitled Law and Artificial Intelligence: Issues of Ethics, Human Rights and Social Harm, edited by Dr Aleš Završnik and Dr Katja Simončič and published by the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana.
Dr Bogataj Jančič presented her findings at the symposium on Law in the Information Society, which took place on 17 March 2023 at the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana.
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?