Text and Data Mining (TDM)

  Image by Anja from Pixabay In a statement made on 12 October 2023, the French collecting society Sacem, which represents most authors/composers and publishers of music in France, announced that it…

  Image via Pixabay The two US class actions against Meta   We have previously analysed US class actions against Open AI (here) and Google (here) for unauthorized use of copyright works in the…

  Image by Виктор Сапожников via Pixabay More than two years after the transposition deadline, and with another infringement proceeding under its belt, Bulgaria is one of the last Member States to…

  Photo by 5477687 via Pixabay Arts. 3 and 4 of the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive (CDSMD) introduced two exceptions for Text and Data Mining (TDM) in EU copyright Law. These two…

  Photo evan p. cordes on Flickr CC BY 2.0 DEED I Wonder … What if our “belief” in something turns into our “faith” in it? For the last few months, I have been wondering if our belief in “fair…

  Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash In his classic work, ‘Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy’, Josef Schumpeter referred to the ‘waves of creative destruction’ to describe how monopoly rents…

Photo by Possessed Photography on Unsplash Copyright protection in machine-generated works is not a new issue for law makers. The traditional concept of human authorship was first challenged with…

 Machine readable opt-outs from TDM As we head into the last month of the current EU legislative term, there are increasing signs that EU lawmakers are unable to agree on the AI Act, which was…

  Image from DALL-E 3 Introduction Generative AI is disrupting the creative process(es) of intellectual works on an unparalleled scale. More and more AI systems offer services that push users’…