If generative artificial intelligence is allowed to generate profits by learning \u2014 without permission \u2014 literary works and designs that people made efforts to produce, then everyone will lose their motivation to create, and culture will only fall into ruin.
The government should implement legal measures to protect intellectual property from <\/p>\n\n\n\n
A.I. <\/strong> AI <\/strong>\u200b\u200bera, chaired by Toshiya Watanabe, a vice president of the University of Tokyo, has released a draft outline of an interim report. The government intends to reflect the interim report, which will be compiled soon, in its plan to promote measures on intellectual property. AI <\/strong>developers in the AI \u200b\u200btraining stage \u2014 but learning by AI involves the process of turning works into usable data, and the content of the data is directly related to the products created as a result. AI <\/strong>users utilizing the imitated design without being aware of the infringement. AI <\/strong> developers and service providers have gotten a free ride on costly and labor-intensive news content. Regarding this matter, the draft outline states that the efforts people put into their creative work is not subject to copyright law protection.
The Cabinet Office’s expert panel on intellectual property rights in the<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The draft outline states that AI learning of intellectual property does not fall under the protection of the Trademark Law or the Design Law, which require the protection of product names and designs. The draft therefore does not call for restrictions on such AI training.
The rationale appears to be that no profits are generated for<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The thinking by the expert panel that there is no need to protect intellectual property in the AI <\/strong>\u200b\u200btraining stage is too one-sided.
For example, the Design Law, which protects automobile and other designs, prohibits the imitation of designs for a certain period of time in order to ensure economic benefits for the designs’ creators.
Usually, if another person or party imitates a design, it is a single case of infringement of the creator’s rights. However, if AI learns the design, the rights infringement is far more serious as there can be multiple cases of <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The government revised the Copyright Law in 2018 to allow AI to learn about art, news articles and other copyrighted works without restrictions.
Last year, the Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association issued a statement saying that <\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, intellectual works cannot be created without human effort. In 2005, the Intellectual Property High Court ordered a company that had used Yomiuri Shimbun headlines without permission for its online news distribution service to pay compensation. The court ruled that the headlines were the result of great effort and expense and that they therefore deserve legal protection.
Basically, expert panels of the Cabinet Office are tasked with synthesizing overall views about measures. If the panel on intellectual property believes <\/p>\n\n\n\n