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[Guest post] The UK’s AI and copyright consultation – will data protection law render any commercial TDM exception ineffective?

The IPKat

For example, a vocal recording in a musical performance is likely to be protected under copyright law and constitute personal data. Similarly, this blog post is protected as a literary work under copyright law, but also contains personal data about us as its authors, including for example our names and where we work.

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Top 10 Posts on the Kluwer Copyright Blog in 2022

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Acuff-Rose Music, Inc., A vanishing right? The Sui Generis Database Right and the proposed Data Act by Paul Keller. [T]he AI Music Outputs: Challenges to the Copyright Legal Framework – Part I by Oleksandr Bulayenko , João Pedro Quintais , Joost Poort and Daniel Gervais. Andy Warhol Foundation v.

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Are AI models’ weights protected databases?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The s ui generis right is granted (only) to EU-based companies and individuals (Article 11) that make a substantial investment in either the obtaining, verification or presentation of the contents of the database. If model weights qualify as a database, what then?

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The UK government moves forward with a text and data mining exception for all purposes

Kluwer Copyright Blog

On 28 June 2022, the government published both the responses by the 61 participants (among which trade associations in the publishing, technology, and music industries, academics, libraries, and cross-sector bodies) together with its own position as far as legislative changes and next steps are concerned.

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Training AI models on Synthetic Data: No silver bullet for IP infringement risk in the context of training AI systems (Part 1 of 4)

LexBlog IP

This is because training of GenAI models requires processing of large amounts of data that potentially contain copyrighted works, as well as materials displaying trademarks and data compilations which may be protected by sui generis database rights in the EU, or other information the use of which may be restricted by contract or terms of use.

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