French MPs want to amend EU's copyright rules to cover generative AI
French MPs want to amend EU's copyright rules to cover generative AI
A commission of the French National Assembly published an opinion on Thursday (18 January) recommending amending the EU's Copyright Directive to elaborate an international AI treaty and regular reviews of the EU's AI Act.
"How to identify original works by artists? How to attribute works generated by AI intermediaries? How to remunerate authors whose works have been used? How to manage opt-outs for artists who refuse their content to be used by AI? These are the questions that require a review of the copyright directive in light of generative AI,” says Mireille Clapot, the Member of Parliament leading on the opinion and President of France's National Assembly’s High Commission for Digital and Posts (CNSP).
Although Clapot and her colleagues welcome the AI Act, they believe the Copyright Directive will have to be amended because of the recent technological developments in AI.
What they should do is reduce the copyright duration. Lifetime+70years is way too loong
I think 20 years should be plenty to earn money from a creative work.
Imagine the cultural possibilities if everything before 2004 was public domain...
I like the idea of 24 years plus the possibility of an extension with a fee, or proof of activity, for another 12 years if the owner is a person.
If, at any point, the rights are sold, passed, or the owner is not a person (but for example a corporation or association) it should last 12 years from that time with an extension of 6, so the ability to sell your idea or give it to your spawns for a soft landing is not destroyed, but it can not be abused.
To further avoid abuse if it has already been extended before being sold it should last only 6 years without possibility of extension. So at most it would be 42 years for active and valuable things.
EDIT: To clarify, if it gets sold multiple times, the "timer" shouldn't be reset but keep ticking down from the date of the first transaction, or it would open the door to accounting shenanigans just to keep it alive and locked.
What they should do is to delete copyrights from the law.
That's great, because this will mean I can train a generative AI on all copyrighted music and tune it accordingly to reproduce those works exactly, but claim it just does this randomly, because "AI works in mysterious ways"…
