e daremo il benvenuto al "third enclosure movement" e l'ennesima vittoria del "copyright maximalism"...
Giancarlo On Thu, Sep 5, 2024 at 11:57 PM GC F <[email protected]> wrote: > Studio commissionato da una lobby di parte che "sorprendentemente" > fornisce prova che serve gli interessi di quella parte ("we now have proof > that" - sic!). Al di là dei contenuti specifici, e siamo in molti con > posizioni differenti o perlomeno più caute (e infatti, "This study > challenges the prevailing European legal stance" e aggiungerei > "internazionale"), ma qual'è il valore scientifico visto il contesto? Poi, > aggiungerei, il fatto che l'intero rapporto sia redatto in tedesco non > aiuta neppure l'accesso alla comunità internazionale per vagliare premesse, > sviluppo del ragionamento e conclusioni. A una preliminare lettura tramite > traduzione automatizzata di ToC e intro, non vendo riferimenti > importanti alle questioni salienti, eg quali "dicotomia idea/espressione", > forse la grundnorm del diritto d'autore, potenziale liceità della copia > digitale intermedia per usi trasformativi, distinzione input e output (e se > questo output finale violi o meno i diritti autoriali quale opera > derivata), distinzione tra responsabilità delle piattaforma che addestra la > macchina a produrre "infinite" potenzialità lecite e illecite e > responsabilità dell'utente finale che fornisce alla macchina quei "suitable > prompts" che conducono a generare materiali illeciti, circonvenendo tra > l'altro gli strumenti tecnologici a tutela dei diritti autoriali che le > piattaforme generative hanno implementato nella creazione dell'algoritmo. > Comunque, "we now have proof"...e allora ci dimenticheremo dei tanti dubbi > che la "prevailing legal stance" si pone... > > On Thu, Sep 5, 2024 at 10:02 PM Daniela Tafani <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Press Release: A computer scientist and a legal scholar shed light on the >> black box of processing steps in AI training - for the first time on this >> scale. >> >> The presentation of the interdisciplinary study “Copyright & Training of >> Generative AI - Technological and Legal Foundations” took place today in >> the European Parliament. >> >> In spring, the Copyright Initiative commissioned Prof. Dr. Tim W. Dornis >> (University of Hannover) in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Sebastian Stober >> (University of Magdeburg) with a tandem expert opinion on the technological >> and legal aspects of training generative AI models. Their interdisciplinary >> research provides urgently needed new insights into the technically >> necessary intermediate steps in the training of generative artificial >> intelligence. For the first time on this scale, a computer scientist and a >> legal scholar are jointly creating evidence regarding the processing steps >> in AI training. During the event, many open questions about protected >> materials were answered in a well-founded, reliable manner and in line with >> the current state of the art. >> >> The work of Prof. Dornis and Prof. Stober focuses on the copyright >> assessment of the processing of protected material in AI training: >> >> “As a closer look at the technology of generative AI models reveals, the >> training of such models is not a case of text and data mining. It is a case >> of copyright infringement – no exception applies under German and European >> copyright law,” says Prof. Dornis. Prof. Stober explains that “parts of the >> training data can be memorized in whole or in part by current generative >> models - LLMs and (latent) diffusion models - and can therefore be >> generated again with suitable prompts by end users and thus reproduced.” >> Axel Voss, MEP and host of today's event in the European Parliament, >> expressly thanks the scientists Dornis and Stober and is pleased that >> >> “the study not only proves that the training of Generative AI models is >> not covered by text and data mining, but that it also provides further >> important indications and suggestions for a better balance between the >> protection of human creativity and the promotion of AI innovation.” >> “This study is explosive because it proves that we are dealing with >> large-scale theft of intellectual property. The ball is now in the >> politicians' court to draw the necessary conclusions and finally put an end >> to this theft at the expense of journalists and other authors,” >> commented Hanna Möllers, legal advisor to the DJV and representative of >> the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ). >> >> Katharina Uppenbrink, Managing Director of the Initiative Urheberrecht, >> emphasizes: >> >> “It is a groundbreaking result if we now have proof that the reproduction >> of works by an AI model constitutes a copyright-relevant reproduction and, >> in addition, that making them available on the European Union market may >> infringe the right of making available to the public.” >> The composer and spokesperson for the Copyright Initiative, Matthias >> Hornschuh, comments: >> >> “There would be a new, profitable licensing market on the horizon, but no >> remuneration is flowing, while generative AI is preparing to replace those >> whose content it lives from in its own market. This jeopardizes >> professional knowledge work and cannot be in the interests of society, >> culture or the economy. All the better that the authors of our tandem study >> provide the technological and copyright basis for finally turning the legal >> consideration of generative artificial intelligence from its head to its >> feet.” >> Dornis, Tim W. and Stober, Sebastian, Copyright and training of >> generative AI models - technological and legal foundations >> >> (September 4, 2024). >> >> https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4946214 >> >> (in German) >> >> Please find below the downloads: >> >> The abstract can be found below and here (in English and German language): >> < >> https://urheber.info/media/pages/diskurs/ai-training-is-copyright-infringement/fde9e3aa84-1725457258/abstract_english_german.pdf >> > >> The executive summary: < >> https://urheber.info/media/pages/diskurs/ai-training-is-copyright-infringement/e8fab9ab59-1725460935/executive-summary_engl_final_29-08-2024.pdf >> > >> The presentation in Berlin will take place at the end of September. >> >> <https://urheber.info/diskurs/ai-training-is-copyright-infringement> > >
