"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.
Don’t you think it’s rather strange for an artist, if people can use their art how ever they want during the artist lifetime?
Why? It’s how patents always have worked. And even with a maximum of 20 years for patents they are more often used to stifle innovation rather than encourage it.
Copyright and patents should start at 5 years, and then be possible to extend 5 years at a time up to 20 years if the company owning the copyright or patent can prove it’s still in active use and not only used to prevent others from moving forward.
Art is not the same as technology. Artist have a rather personal and intimate connection to their creation, while at the same time the usability of art is not crucial for advancement of society, like it is with technology. Therefore it seems fair to me that an artist has the right to stop his art from being used in context he does not like. For example a liberal artist work used for advancement of racist propaganda.
But that already happens all the time. Vedy often the rights end up in the hands of some corporation and the author gets to have ~zero say in how it’s used.
Doesn’t seem to have been a particularly big issue.
But the author has to sell his rights for this first, which he should be able to decide for himself.
Would be a great incentive to make new art then, wouldn’t it?
It might seem strange to you only because you aren’t used to it. However, copyright is a fairly new concept, and most of human history happened without it.
What do you mean? Artist have often a personal and intimate connection to their art and might be upset if someone uses it in a context they might dislike. For example a liberal artist art is used in a racist propaganda. Or a big corporation just used your favorite painting in a commercial for something you completely disagree with. I think artist should be able to hold the rights for their art as long as they are alive.
And we had no democracy, women had little rights a lot of people were some kind of slaves (and still are). Took humanity some time to come up with some very important concepts.