An architect in EU copyright law said legislation is needed to protect writers, musicians and creatives in the group’s AI bill being revealed by “irresponsible” legal gaps.

The intervention was written by 15 cultural organizations in the European Commission this week, warning that the draft rules for implementing the AI ​​Act "take several steps in copyright, while one writer talked about "destructive ” Vulnerability.

Axel Voss, a German center-right member of the European Parliament, played a key role in writing the EU's 2019 Copyright Directive, said the law did not think of a generated AI model: text, images or music system. Simple text prompts.

Voss said the "legal gap" was opened after the end of the EU AI Act, which means that copyrights cannot be enforced in the field. “What I don’t understand is that we support large-scale technology, not protecting European creativity and content.”

The EU's AI bill, which came into effect last year, has already begun when it held papers, jokes and job applications for AI chatbots in late 2022, becoming public awareness and becoming the fastest-growing consumer application in history. .

Chatgpt was developed by Openai, which is also behind the AI ​​Image Generator Dall-E. The rapid rise of generative AI systems is based on a large number of books, newspaper articles, images and songs, which have raised alarms from authors, newspapers and musicians, triggering numerous lawsuits regarding alleged copyright violations.

Voss said he couldn't attract most EU lawmakers to ensure strong copyright protection when the issue emerged later in the negotiation of the AI ​​Act. He said it was "irresponsible" to not have strong provisions on copyright and that the legal gap remained "incredible".

He hopes legislation will fill that gap, but says it will take years after the European Commission’s decision to withdraw its proposed AI accountability law last week. "It can become very difficult. So copyright infringement continues, but no one can prove it."

The AI ​​Act states that tech companies must comply with the 2019 Copyright Act, which includes exemptions for text and data mining.

Voss said the exemption of copyright law aims for limited private use rather than allowing the world's largest companies to harvest a lot of intellectual property. What introduced TDM exemption in the AI ​​Act is “He said.

This view was reinforced by a major academic study by legal scholar Tim Dornis and computer scientist Sebastian Stober, which concluded that Training on the generation of AI models of distributed materials cannot be regarded as a "case of text and data mining" but "copyright infringement."

Meanwhile, TDM exemptions triggered a shock wave in the creative profession. Nina George is a best-selling German author whose work has been translated into 37 languages, and he describes the TDM exception as "destructive." The copyright exclusion was initially intended to balance the interests of the author with the public, such as allowing school chemistry texts, she said. "These commercial use exceptions for AI mean that commercial benefits will be provided for the first time," she said. "It is a paradigm shift (and) an abnormal way to bend copyright and author rights to achieve the interests of some businesses. .”

Honorary Chairman George, the European Council of Writers, said she could not find out if any of the works were used to feed the generated AI system. “The lack of tools to enforce any rights is a scandal related to the copyright directive of the AI ​​Act (IN).

Dutch electrical running artist Aafke Romeijn said there is no practical way for creatives to opt out of work in AI applications.

The company has no obligation to report the content used to feed the generated AI model. Starting August 2, tech companies will have to provide a summary of the data used in the AI ​​model, but are still determining the details. Voss said the latest rules for the EU AI Office summary "are not detailed enough" to protect artists.

15 cultural organizations said in a letter to the committee this week that the draft summary proposal failed to ensure transparency. These organizations write more generally: “The impact of AI on the authors and performers we represent is a systematic risk.”

Romeijn, who is a board member of the European Union of Composers and Songwriters, said senior EU officials told her she was told she was told she would go to court to protect her copyright. "Who is actually going to bring a big tech company to court?" she asked, citing costs, time, loss of revenue and potential losses to reputation. “It’s just a very unrealistic way to implement legislation.”

The Council of European Literary Translation Association, which represents 10,000 translators in 28 countries, said it is very focused on copyright and AI. It answers the question: "Books are written by human authors and must be translated by human translators to preserve the artistic virtues of literary works." "We firmly believe that authors, performers and creative workers must have the right to decide whether they can be generated by AI uses their work and if they agree, they can get quite a bit of reward.”

Last December, most of the same cultural organizations wrote to the European Commission’s Vice President, referring to ennavirkkunen, to raise concerns that EU law “has not adequately protected the rights of our creative communities and the value of cultural works.” According to three signatories, the committee has no answer after nearly 11 weeks.

"So far, she (Virkkunen) seems to have no ear or understanding - sadly say - about the entire value chain and how it works in the cultural and creative industries."

Italian Social Democrat Brando Benifei, jointly speaking on behalf of the European Parliament to negotiate on the AI ​​Act, objecting to the idea that creatives are protected. He described AI behavior as "very powerful text" that has the potential to "establish a very large rebalancing of power between developers and rights holders".

He added. “(This) has been an obsession with big tech companies because it may be part of the AI ​​bill and may have the biggest impact on the cost of big AI companies.”

A spokesman for the European Commission said that "closely monitor the global challenges posed by AI technology development to the creative industry" and "committed to maintaining a balanced approach to promoting innovation while protecting human creativity."

“We are evaluating the need for other measures outside the AI ​​framework,transparent The spokesman added that he refused to say whether this means new legislation.