May 10, 2024
Our Visual Arts licensing team have been working closely with the National Gallery and its partner venues as part of their Sharing the National Collection initiative, offering simple licence solutions to cover marketing and promotional uses. The initiative, launched last year and supported by the Australian Government’s cultural policy, Revive, has seen iconic pieces from […]
May 9, 2024
On 17 April, the UK Government responded to the February 2024 report from the House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee on large language models and generative AI. There is information about that report here. It included comments and recommendations regarding copyright compliance and transparency. You can see the UK Government’s response here. It includes […]
May 8, 2024
You may have heard the news or read our earlier articles here and here. Whether you have or not, here’s a quick recap of key points: Reciprocity started: 31 March 2024 Reciprocating countries: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Ireland, Latvia, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. More countries […]
May 6, 2024
The UK All-Party Parliamentary Group on Music has published a report with recommendations relating to artificial intelligence (AI) and music. You can see the report here. The report also includes some results of research on attitudes to AI and music (full results of survey here). The research outcomes included: Over four out of five (83%) […]
April 30, 2024
The Financial Times (FT) and OpenAI have announced a content licensing deal that will allow OpenAI to use FT content to develop generative artificial intelligence (AI) technology. It will also allow OpenAI’s ChatGPT to respond to questions with short summaries from FT articles, with links back to FT.com. You can see FT’s announcement here and Open […]
April 29, 2024
On 9 April, a Bill requiring transparency about copyrighted material used to train generative AI models was introduced into the US Congress. You can see the announcement by Representative Adam Schiff (who introduced the Bill) here. You can see the Bill (titled the Generative AI Copyright Disclosure Act) here. The Bill is supported by a […]
April 29, 2024
On 11 April, the Attorney General announced that the Government would introduce amendments to the Copyright Act in relation to remote learning. You can see the announcement here. The amendments are intended to address perceived uncertainties by some in the school sector regarding remote learning by school students. Remote learning has been in place in […]
April 29, 2024
The Attorney-General’s Department has published the list of members of the Copyright and AI Reference Group (CAIRG) and of the CAIRG Steering Committee. You can see the 61 members of the Reference Group and the 20 members of the Steering Committee here. Copyright Agency is a member of the Steering Committee, as are Australian Society […]
