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Copyright, AI & onions

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Don’t cry! Ciara Cullen, Joshy Thomas & Emma Dunnill peel back the many layers of content scraping & copyright
  • The interaction between AI and copyright is both a top news item and the subject of numerous court actions and licensing disputes globally.
  • A UK government consultation on AI and Copyright has recently closed, producing thousands of responses, which the government is currently processing.

‘Copyright law is like an onion—it has many layers, and it will make you cry’ (Caroline Wilson, as retweeted by Tim Berners-Lee).

The lachrymatory interaction between artificial intelligence (AI) and copyright remains both a top news item and the subject of numerous court actions and licensing disputes globally. The main issue stems from the way that the majority of generative AI (gen AI) models, such as ChatGPT, have been and are trained. The use of works scraped from the internet for training is alleged to infringe copyright in the works of content creators. A key separate issue, also the

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