Early discussions involve a fee to use works as training materials and a prohibition on outputs that borrow too much from existing material. Under the model, there’d be a fee for the ingestion of works and another for outputs that reference content. Talks include restrictions on prompting the chatbots to produce material “in the style of” authors, using characters from other works and producing summaries of books.
Source: Authors Guild Exploring Blanket License For Artificial Intelligence Companies
In every legitimate market in the world, the use of others’ property requires the owner’s consent and agreed-upon compensation. Together, for example, music and technology have developed a burgeoning streaming market built on the common-sense principle that use of copyrighted creative works requires licensing and consent. AI developers must keep accurate records of the copyrighted works used by their models and make them available to rights holders seeking to enforce their rights.
Like every company, Adobe is figuring out what the boundaries of copyright law and fair use look like in the age of AI, just like the creatives that rely on its products. But at the same time, it’s also making huge investments in and shipping generative AI tools like the Firefly image generator inside of huge mainstream software products like Photoshop and Illustrator.