UK's Collective Licensing Initiative Aims to Harmonize AI and Copyright Law

Licensing AI music: the industry is focusing on the wrong problem

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Why Copyright Compliance Should Be on Every Event Planner’s Checklist

Event planning takes a great deal of creativity, coordination, and meticulous attention to detail. From corporate events to weddings, concerts, festivals, or community events, planners dedicate hours brainstorming themes, vendors, performances, and experiences. But one significant element that sometimes gets neglected is copyright compliance. Disregard for copyright law can result in legal issues, fines, or harm to your professional reputation. …

Mind vs Machine: Who owns the rights to AI-generated works?

Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping industries and creative processes, but it also presents new challenges for intellectual property law. In the UK, where copyright law has traditionally protected the rights of human copyright owners, the rise of AI-generated content has created uncertainties about who owns the rights to AI-generated works? There are three key issues and challenges currently regarding AI and copyright: Ownership rights Au…

Deep Fusion Films, NFTS partner on AI in screen industries course

Dewp Fusion Films, creators of the Virtually Parkinson podcast, has joined forces with the National Film and Television School (NFTS) on a new course focused on the growing role of artificial intelligence in the screen industries. The Certificate in AI Protocols and Practices for Film and Television will be delivered online weekly over six months starting in September. Deep Fusion Films founders Benjamin Field (left) and Jamie Anderson It will b…

UK’s Collective Licensing Initiative Aims to Harmonize AI and Copyright Law – NatLawReview.com – OPUS IP

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UK's Collective Licensing Initiative Aims to Harmonize AI and Copyright Law

In a significant move to address the tension between copyright and generative artificial intelligence (AI), the UK’s Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA), Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS), and Publishers’ Licensing Services (PLS) have announced plans to launch a collective licensing framework for AI training. The opt-in license would allow AI developers to use text-based published works—such as books, journals, and magazines—for trai…