AI crisis of the week.
Fair use vs copyright protection- can AI learn from the content that is published and what about protecting content providers.
The outcome of these real-time conundrums will dictate the future of US and to extent EU AI’s vs. Other Countries like China and Russia AI’s who have less protections for content creators.
Copyright concepts will need to adapt and evolve to navigate this crisis.
Axios tackles some of these issues in todays newsletter.
learn about -> cite in answers -> take for its own as authoritative -> use to generate derivative
This is how the current
Until recently humans using AI could NOT get a copyright for the content that they directed the AI to generate. The recent work of art called one piece of American cheese was the first human directed and AI generated piece of art to receive US PTO copyright protection.
Kent Keirsey, A Single Piece of American Cheese (2024). Photo courtesy of Invoke.
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/invoke-snags-first-ai-image-copyright-2608219
This case and the concept that AI because in itself can not hold or violate a copyright is critical here. Only humans can hold copyrights and by extension only humans can violate copyrights. AI is NOT a Human being, obvious however both like and unlike a tape recorder or Napster repository it requires a human interaction either in the programming and or use to copy content. Under human direction an AI could copy content, store it, learn from it and create net new works in a style resembling the original or the artist.