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

Kluwer Copyright Blog

As previously reported , between October 2021 and January 2022 the UK Intellectual Property Office held a public consultation on the intersection between artificial intelligence (AI) and intellectual property laws (more specifically, copyright and patents). Ownership for patent inventions. All-purpose TDM.

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Are AI models’ weights protected databases?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

However, it’s unclear whether the models themselves are currently protected by intellectual property laws. If model weights qualify as a database, what then? The run file is a classic piece of software and does not pose particular difficulties. Second, no programmer actually controls the generation of the expression.