The European Union’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act was recently discussed at a trilogue meeting of three key bodies of the EU as part of the last phase of negotiations, on October 24, 2023. Creative Commons (CC) collaborated with Communia to…

By Jonathan Band, Policy Bandwidth 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 train large language models in the generative…

Prof. P. Bernt Hugenholtz Institute for Information Law (IViR), University of Amsterdam Email: hugenholtz@uva.nl In preparation of the 44th meeting of the SCCR a Third Revised Draft Text for the WIPO Broadcasting Organizations Treaty was prepared by the SCCR Acting Chair,…

Although Colombia has been recognized for its AI policies, its development is unsatisfactory. Under the Duque government, an ethical framework was issued and various documents were established to promote AI, but the impacts were not evaluated nor the opinions of…

The WIPO Broadcasting Treaty: Possible Amendments, A presentation by Professor Bernt Hugenholtz, University of Amsterdam to the fall meetings of the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property (PIJIP) at American University. In this presentation for PIJIP, Professor Bernt Hugenholtz…

The European Commission and the Ukrainian National Office for Intellectual Property and Innovations (IP office) held their annual IP Dialogue under the Association Agreement between the European Commission and Ukraine on October 19, 2023. The Electronic Information for Libraries (EIFL)…

Sean Flynn, Director, PIJIP 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 published on the CC…

[From the U.S. Copyright Office website] The U.S. Copyright Office extended the deadline to submit comments in response to its August 30, 2023, notice of inquiry regarding artificial intelligence and copyright. The new deadlines will ensure that members of the…

IFLA participated in several events at the Creative Commons Global Summit this year to further articulate the values of the ‘Towards a Recommendation on Open Culture (TAROC)’ initiative led by CC. This initiative “opens up a wealth of opportunities to…

By Sean Flynn Pedro Roffe Rosenfeld, the former Director of the UNCTAD-ICTSD Project on Intellectual Property and Development, and an important contributor to debates and policy making at the intersection of intellectual property and development, passed away on October 1,…