EU AI Act and Copyright Challenges in the Growing AI Ecosystem 📜

Iva Gobac provides a summary of Toby Headdon's article which delves into the complexities of copyright regarding the "burgeoning AI ecosystem."

"On the first of August this year the European AI Act came into force.
It's the world's first comprehensive regulation on AI and it addresses copyright in three main ways.

First, it clarifies that text and data mining may be used to retrieve and analyse the vast amounts of data required for the training of general purpose AI models. This typically requires the authorisation of the copyright holder, although TDM exceptions may apply.

Second, the Act imposes an obligation on AI model developers to make publicly available “a sufficiently detailed summary about the content used for the training of the general purpose AI model” to enable copyright holders to enforce their rights.

And third, the Act has introduced long arm jurisdiction by applying the compliance obligations to providers of general purpose AI models no matter where they are located.

You can find out more on this topic in my colleague Toby Headdon’s article in our series on the EU AI Act at www.bristows.com/shorts."