Japan publishes the 2023 intellectual property Promotion Plan, which will focus on the definition of generative AI infringement.
CTOnews.com, June 9, according to the Yomiuri Shimbun, the Japanese government held a meeting on intellectual property strategy headquarters this morning and decided on Japan's intellectual property strategic plan for 2023.
The plan focuses on copyright infringement of generative AI, and the Japanese government says it will discuss relevant legal issues and consider necessary measures.
▲ Touyuan Japan intellectual property Strategy headquarters the plan shows that the focus on the relationship between generative AI and intellectual property is to "appropriately address external concerns and potential risks to promote the development, provision and use of generative AI". At the same time, the Japanese government also said that it has recognized the need for a "rapid and flexible response" to relevant issues.
The plan also points out that the definition of generative AI infringement needs to clarify several conceptual issues first. First of all, how much contribution does the user need to make to the generation of the AI work before it can be recognized as a copyrighted original work? Secondly, how much does the similarity between the original work and the original work be recognized as copyright infringement? Finally, how to understand "unreasonably harming the interests of copyright owners" proposed in Article 30-4 of the copyright Law?
Article 30-4 of the copyright Law, which was revised and implemented in Japan in 2018, states that AI is allowed to freely study copyrighted works without the permission of the copyright owner, but does not "unreasonably harm the interests of copyright owners". This expression is seen as too ambiguous, and the creator wants the right to ban his work from being used in the training of generative AI.
CTOnews.com previously reported that there has been a heated discussion about the copyright of generative AI in Japanese society recently, after Ji Yingshe suspended the sale of its first model photo album created by generative AI on the grounds that it "did not fully consider the copyright risk."
