The European Copyright Society (ECS) has published its Opinion on copyright and generative AI. The Executive Summary is reproduced below and the full Opinion is available here and here.
Executive Summary
The ECS considers that the current development of generative artificial intelligence (AI), under the regulatory framework set up by the Directive on
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