In the heated copyright discussions over generative artificial intelligence, the term “text and data mining” is sometimes used interchangeably with “machine learning” or the “ingestion of material” to ...
The Israel Ministry of Justice has issued an important opinion concluding that the use of copyrighted materials in the machine learning (ML) context is permitted under existing Israeli copyright law.
In Part I of this blogpost, I briefly set out the procedural history of the copyright reform process that led to the Presidential Referral of the Bill to the Constitutional Court. I also briefly ...
The MEEPA is a tentatively concluded trade agreement between Malaysia and EFTA (the European Free Trade Association of Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland) that may soon be signed by the ...
Professor Sean Fiil-Flynn, Director of the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, American University Washington College of Law, and Professor Klaus Beiter, Professor of Law, ...
At this year’s Creative Commons (CC) Global Summit in Mexico City, a group of CC members “identified a set of common issues and values” on copyright and artificial intelligence. The ideas were ...
Who has the ability to take language data from African communities and develop an AI tool? Anyone with the capability can do that. And you’ll find that there are certain jurisdictions that have more ...
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has assented to a new copyright act that updates the country’s exceptions and limitations for the digital environment. Most significantly, the act replaces a closed ...
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) held its General Assembly (GA) this week, including a review of the progress and recommendations of the Standing ...
The cost of excluding billions of people in Africa and the Global South from access to knowledge could be huge for future generations. Knowledge-sharing in Africa is not always transactional, and the ...
Member states delivered opening statements and deliberated on the progress, substantive provisions, and method of work on the draft broadcasting treaty text. This blog post summarises positions and ...
Kakooza explores the progress Uganda has made in implementing the objectives of the 2013 Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired or ...