If you’re interested in AI copyright, the paper “The Heart of the Matter: Copyright, AI Training, and LLMs” by Daniel Gervais, Noam Shemtov, Haralambos Marmanis, and Catherine Zaller Rowland is a must-read.
Here’s why:
Since the recent Generative AI boom started in November 2022, with the launch of ChatGPT, the AI copyright lawsuits have been piling up, and various academic papers covering LLM-related copyright infringement have been published, discussing, e.g., if “fair use” can be applicable or who can be covered by Article 3 of the EU copyright directive (I have been covering both the lawsuits and the articles in this newsletter; check the archive).