Right holders consider themselves sidelined in EU’s AI approach
By Luca Bertuzzi ( April 16, 2025, 15:20 GMT | Comment) -- Right holders in the EU are feeling increasingly marginalized by the current approach to artificial intelligence, which they believe prioritizes the needs of AI developers over their own. The drafting process of the EU code of practice for general-purpose AI models has been a point of contention, as right holders argue that the compliance measures on copyright have been systematically weakened. Thus, they have shifted their focus to a mandatory training dataset template, which they hope will address critical transparency issues. But they remain skeptical about the European Commission's commitment to protecting copyright, and look with hostility at initiatives that might force them to express their reservation rights in certain ways. As a result, right holders might be preparing some high-profile initiatives to prompt the EU to change its AI approach before it's too late.Right holders feel increasingly marginalized in the EU’s approach to artificial intelligence, as the new political agenda, which leans on economic competitiveness, seems to prioritize the needs of AI developers over theirs....
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