Publishers Submit Reply Comments to Copyright Office in Artificial Intelligence Proceeding

The Association of American Publishers today filed reply comments in the U.S. Copyright Office inquiry into the intersection of copyright law and artificial intelligence (AI) in response to flawed and inaccurate assertions submitted by some tech companies and/or their investors in the first comment round including tired assertions that the rights of authors and publishers are an obstacle to innovation.

AAP filed a lengthy submission that includes the following points:
*Big tech petitions the government “for cover from liability for their calculated disregard of authorship, also ignoring that rights holders today already routinely license their works for all kinds of digital uses.”
*“Rather than working with copyright owners, these companies seek to appropriate literature and other invaluable intellectual property for their own commercial gain, and to bend the law to their will. Government should have no role in bestowing commercial advantages to AI companies at the expense of authors, publishers, and other creators.”
*“The companies that benefit from the commercialization of this technology should be required not only to compensate rights holders for their past ingestion of copyrighted works to train Gen AI systems but also for their ongoing and future use of protected works to train new Gen AI systems or fine-tune their existing products.”
*“Gen AI developers are not struggling “start-ups” that need a boost from the government. They count among their investors some of the largest and most profitable technology companies in the world and are valued, in some instances, between $80-90 billion dollars. There is absolutely no public policy reason to create legal immunities for such companies, who face only the reasonable requirement that they seek the consent of, or licenses from, rights holders whose works they use for training their Gen AI systems.”
much more at: https://publishers.org/news/publishers-submit-reply-comments-to-copyright-office-in-artificial-intelligence-proceeding/

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