Brussels (Brussels Morning Newspaper) – Following the adoption of the AI Act this year, artists and organizations representing rights holders have sent an open letter to the EU Commission.
A group of creators and rights holders organisations in Europe called the European Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs) have issued an open letter to the Commission “calling for meaningful implementation”. The signatories are the European Audiovisual Production Association (CEPI), the European Composer and Songwriter Alliance (ECSA), the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), the EUROCINEMA Association of Film and Television Producers, the European Grouping of Societies of Authors and Composers (GESAC), among many others.
What are the main concerns of artists about AI?
The letter facilitates the AI Act as a “pioneering model of ethical and responsible AI regulation” but states that “we are contending with the seriously detrimental problem of generative AI companies taking our content without permission on an industrial scale to develop their AI models. Their efforts result in illegal commercial advancements and unfair competitive advantages for their AI models, services, and products, in breach of European copyright laws.”Â
What do rights holders demand from AI model providers?
The letter argued “Proper implementation, CCIs hope, will require “general purpose AI model providers to make publicly available a sufficiently detailed summary of the content used for training of their models to the obligation for such providers to demonstrate that they have put in place policies to respect EU copyright law”.
If these regulations are meaningfully executed, this will help EU artists and rights holders to be fully competent in exercising and implementing their rights against malicious actors in the AI sector.
What challenges do creators face in the AI landscape?
Moreover, more than 200 artists – including Stevie Wonder, Billie Eilish, Nicki Minaj, R.E.M., and the estates of Bob Marley and Frank Sinatra – were featured on an open letter presented by the Artist Rights Alliance non-profit, calling on artificial intelligence tech firms, developers, platforms, digital music services and platforms to prevent using AI “to infringe upon and devalue the rights of human artists.”
