Generative AI Copyright Report from U.S. Office Revealed
The U.S. Copyright Office just released a “pre-publication” version of its series on AI and Copyright. The Register of Copyrights pre-publication report, entitled, Generative AI Training, contained the statement that it was “released in response to congressional inquiries and expressions of interest from stakeholders. A final version will be published in the near future, without any substantive changes expected in the analysis or conclusions.”
The draft report (summarized here) has some controversial opinions on AI training and copyright infringement including about how Generative AI systems are trained, what acts involved in training may implicate the reproduction right, what parts of a work contain protectable expression, whether training AI systems is transformative, how the fair use factors should be applied including how factor four (effect of the market) should be applied, and how to weigh the public interest with fair use factors.…