The recent firing of the head of the US Copyright Office came a day after the agency published a draft report assessing copyright law concerning artificial intelligence. This third part of its report questions whether the use of copyrighted materials in the development of generative AI systems falls within the bounds of fair use. The report indicates that massive data scraping by AI developers might require consent from copyright owners, particularly when such use impacts the market for their works, highlighting the ongoing conflict between AI development and copyright protection.
The report finds AI companies can't sustain a fair use defense when they use copyrighted material to produce competitive expressive content, especially through illegal access.
Generative AI systems draw on massive troves of copyrighted data, raising questions about whether their use requires consent or compensation from copyright owners.
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