Faculty of Law Faculty Professuren Prof. Dr. Dornis News
Interdisciplinary study on generative AI and copyright – now available as open access resource!

Interdisciplinary study on generative AI and copyright – now available as open access resource!

Interdisciplinary study on generative AI and copyright – now available as open access resource!

 

Generative AI (e.g., ChatGPT) generates texts, images, music, and videos. The technology is based on extensive training with copyrighted data. In the USA, AI developers rely on “fair use“; in Europe, the prevailing view is that the exception for “Text and Data Mining“ (TDM) applies.

In their interdisciplinary study (presented at Brussels last week), Professor Dornis and Professor Stober (Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg) refute this approach. They explain why generative AI training is fundamentally different from TDM. The study also explains why AI developers outside Europe are immediately subject to EU copyright law if their AI systems are accessible in the EU. Overall, it becomes clear that a more thorough, technology-oriented consideration and an adaptation of the law to reality are required.

The study is available as open access resource here:

https://doi.org/10.5771/9783748949558