A group of prominent intellectual property law professors has weighed in on the high-stakes AI copyright battle between several authors and Meta. In an amicus brief, the scholars argue that using copyrighted content as training data can be considered fair use under U.S. copyright law, if the goal is to create a new and ‘transformative’ tool. This suggests that fair use could potentially apply to Meta’s training process, even if the underlying data was obtained without permission.

Source: Training AI Using ‘Pirated’ Content Can Be Fair Use, Law Professors Argue * TorrentFreak

Ministers are planning a fresh round of reviews they hope will mollify lawmakers nervous about controversial plans to overhaul U.K. copyright laws to facilitate AI innovation. The reviews will focus on finding technical ways to allow creators to easily and effectively “opt out” from AI companies training models on their work without permission and have more clarity about when their work has been used. However, technical solutions could take several months to emerge.

Source: UK plans fresh round of talks to take sting out of AI copyright proposals

Tony Blair’s thinktank has urged the UK to relax copyright laws in order to let artificial intelligence firms build new products, as it warned a tougher approach could strain the transatlantic relationship. “Without similar provisions in the United States, it would be hard for the UK government to enforce strict copyright laws without straining the transatlantic relationship it has so far sought to nurture.”

Source: UK needs to relax AI laws or risk transatlantic ties, thinktank warns