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Australia’s Senate Select Committee on Adopting Artificial Intelligence (AI) just released a report addressing that country’s opportunities, challenges, and regulatory frameworks with respect to AI technologies. Like, Canada and many other countries globally, Australia is seeking to promote the use … Read more »

OpenAI scored a major success in a recent case in which Raw Story Media, Inc. and AlterNet Media, Inc lost a motion to dismiss their case alleging that OpenAI’s removal of copyright management information (CMI) from thousands of articles prior to using them to train its ChatGPT product  violated Sec … Read more »

I just came across two reports from feeds I monitor, one from LinkedIn, the other from Canlii. The first is the report, 2024 State of the AI Regulatory Landscape. This report provides an overview of the evolving AI regulatory frameworks across major jurisdictions, particularly the United States, Eur … Read more »

Is the creation of a dataset that can be used to train generative AI systems (GenAI systems) an infringement of copyright?  According to a recent decision of a German court, the activity  may be covered by the text and data mining (TDM) exception in Articles 3 and 4 of the Digital Single Market Dire … Read more »

On September 5, 2024, Canada’s major trading partners including the United States, the United Kingdom, and the European Union signed the Council of Europe Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights, Democracy, and the Rule of Law (CETS 225). The Convention on AI is a big deal. … Read more »