In the rapidly developing world of AI uses and discussions, copyright issues are key.
Interview with Bruce Rich
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From Large Language Models (LLMs) to other research-based applications, AI technologies rely on millions of books, scholarly journals, and other curated publications. Responsibly using these works is a foundational part of the discussion.
On Thursday, October 12, 2023, 1000 EDT/1500 BST/1600 CEST, CCC presents a Town Hall special program on LinkedIn Live, “AI, Licensing & The Path Forward.”
CCC’s General Counsel Catherine Zaller Rowland and a panel of international legal experts including Prof. Daniel Gervais, Bruce Rich, and Carlo Scollo Lavizarri will consider voluntary collective licensing, its significance to research in many fields, and the role it can play to drive innovation in science and technology, including AI.
Voluntary collective licensing came to text publishing along with advancements in photocopying technology in the 1970s, Bruce Rich explained for a June 2021 CCC Town Hall, “The Future of Collective Licensing – Copyright in the Digital Marketplace.”
“As a legal precedent, Texaco paved the way for far broader license acceptance by Fortune 100 and other corporations,” he noted. “The license programs that have since been continuously developed and implemented by CCC have rationalized copyright law; minimized repetitious fair use disputes; and enabled lawful commerce in copyrighted works to proceed in myriad market settings.”