The European Parliament's Internal Market and Civil Liberties committees adopted their joint position on a simplification proposal amending the Artificial Intelligence Act. The European Parliament adopted recommendations urging lawmakers to find a permanent solution to protect copyright from use by artificial intelligence. The European Parliament's report calls for EU copyright law to apply to all AI systems made available to users within the bloc. The report proposes creating a European register at the EUIPO listing every copyrighted work used to train AI models and artists who have opted out. It also suggests that companies disclose which websites they have scraped for training data. A Member of the European Parliament emphasized that generative AI must operate within the rule of law, with creators entitled to transparency and fair compensation. A general manager of GESAC added that innovation, fairness, and cultural sovereignty must go hand in hand.
The European Parliament's position introduces a new ban on 'nudifier' systems that use AI to create or manipulate sexually explicit or intimate images resembling an identifiable real person without consent. It proposes postponing the activation of certain rules on high-risk AI systems to ensure predictability and legal certainty, and supports extending support measures to small mid-cap enterprises. A co-rapporteur for the Internal Market and Consumer Protection committee stated the need for predictable rules and clarity for companies. However, a chair of Creativity Works! cautioned that priority should be on implementing existing rules rather than changes that could weaken protections.
The first thing that strikes me is that it is not funny. And then I thought 'Why does it say Øverli in the corner there?'
The EU is prohibiting its employees from using AI-generated images and videos in their official communication.
In Norway, the marketplace Finn.no does not have rules that prohibit the use of images created or edited using artificial intelligence. Finn.no has seen an increase in the use of AI tools in advertisements on the platform. According to a reuse expert at Finn, advertisements are evaluated based on whether they break rules, not the technology used, with images needing to give a correct impression of the item.
It is the height of insolence to just take others' life's work and grind it into a common brain and spit out what you want, says Øverli.
The Norwegian Ministry of Culture has proposed several changes to the Copyright Act in the digital market for the Storting. According to a State Secretary in the Ministry of Culture, this will impact AI systems' opportunities to train on copyright-protected material.
Norwegian artists and cultural leaders are demanding stronger protections against AI misuse. Maria Skretting and Teodor Fossdal believe there should be a ban on using AI-generated images on Finn.no. Frode Øverli believes it is absolutely time to get clearer regulations to protect artists' copyright against their works being used improperly by AI services. Inger Elise May, director at Tono, says AI companies are acting quite recklessly by using our music and Norwegian culture in their models without asking for permission or paying.
Concerns about trust and reliability when AI-generated images are used in advertising are growing. Ada Eide believes it could undermine trust if one uses AI images in advertisements. Aleksander Bjerklien says AI image generation becomes unreliable and questions what kind of object you are actually buying.
Globally, publishers at Press Gazette's Media Strategy Network USA event agreed that where possible, unauthorized large language models should be blocked from training on their websites. All publishers at Press Gazette's Media Strategy Network USA event appear to be using AI in-house in some form.