The Association of American Publishers (AAP) has released its Reply Comments to the U.S. Copyright Office concerning a Notice of Inquiry regarding copyright law and artificial intelligence.
According to Andrew Albanese, Publishers Weekly executive editor, “the AAP told the Copyright Office that the tech industry needs to stop telling copyright owners to back off on their claims that the use of their works to create training datasets for Gen AI systems without permission is infringement.”
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Albanese tells me that AAP’s responded to tech industry assertions that respect for copyright is an obstacle to their innovation by labeling that as, “nonsense.”
“It would be a grave error to repeat the past policy mistakes that allowed technology companies to achieve such an unhealthy, monopoly-like market dominance to the point that governments have struggled to curb their power,” the AAP statement also said.