On July 12, 2023, the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary’s Subcommittee on Intellectual Property held its second hearing on artificial intelligence (AI) and intellectual property (IP). The first hearing, held on June 7, 2023, focused on AI’s implications for patent law, while this second hearing centered on copyright issues. ...
Front and center was the thorny issue of training generative AI models. ...
Accordingly, the senators focused their questioning on mainly five topics, providing a glimpse of what potential federal legislation could look like:
- Need for New Federal Legislation?
- Licensing for Training, and Questions of Opt-Out and Opt-In Policies
- Fair Use
- Comparative International Standards
- Consumer Disclosures
While the senators certainly seemed eager in their questions to understand the AI landscape and what Congress can do to protect IP and creators’ rights, how serious Congress is about enacting federal legislation to protect the creative industry and regulate generative AI remains to be seen. It also remains an open question how these new proposals might interact with existing enforcement tools under copyright law, the Lanham Act, and state laws. ...
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