Copyright & AI, 2025

The regulation of AI has crossed swords with the copyright maximalists. Here are some notes and links.

The EU’s AI Act

1. The Commission comments on the goals of the AI Act, the EU’s landing page and the legal text

The landing page says,

The AI Act is a European regulation on artificial intelligence (AI) – the first comprehensive regulation on AI by a major regulator anywhere. The Act assigns applications of AI to three risk categories. First, applications and systems that create an unacceptable risk, such as government-run social scoring of the type used in China, are banned. Second, high-risk applications, such as a CV-scanning tool that ranks job applicants, are subject to specific legal requirements. Lastly, applications not explicitly banned or listed as high-risk are largely left unregulated.

The AI Act may need another page, my digital regulation in the EU page does not cover it, although it probably should.

Chat GPT and Fair Use

Let’s remember that it’s potentially biased and what its author’s interests are, it says,

The EU does not have a broad, open-ended fair use right, but it does allow limited exceptions to copyright law that function similarly in specific circumstances. However, these exceptions are narrower and less flexible than U.S. fair use.

The EFF

1. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/generative-ai-policy-must-be-precise-careful-and-practical-how-cut-through-hype
2. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/12/while-court-fights-over-ai-and-copyright-continue-congress-and-states-focus
3. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/how-we-think-about-copyright-and-ai-art-0

My diigo links

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