AI lab hot item | MEP Axel Voss: In Search of Pragmatic Solutions for AI Devs & the Creative Sector
π₯ In this 'Hot Item', MEP Axel Voss (Germany, EPP) & the AI lab discuss his intentions to bring the creative industry and AI developers around the table in mid-April for a first exchange to gain a better understanding of the issues perceived on both sides
π Hot Item Highlights
β²οΈ[00:00] Intro
β²οΈ[00:53] MEP Axel Voss (Germany, EPP)
β²οΈ[09:51] Wrap-up & Outro
π£οΈ The copyright problem was already discussed in a way five years ago, but now we have a new technology in place. (...) This problem occurs once again. We should not wait for an imbalanced situation.
π£οΈ We need to solve the [AI] problem, not only for the press publishers but for the whole creative sector.
π£οΈ Technology can't just ignore existing laws (...) and (...) existing laws should not hinder new developments (...). We need a balance. (...) We actually have to try to find a pragmatic solution at the end, [and] it should be (...) legally binding (...).
π£οΈ We need these ideas of what is feasible with the technology (...). If we are thinking about [respecting] copyright (...) it might be critical (...) to say what is copyright protected, (...) who is the copyright holder. (...) [A] problem [might be:] how to do this.
π£οΈ If we have globally acting machines (...), should there be a kind of global approach to it? We are inviting some of our like-minded friends in the world (...) So the transatlantic system might play a role.
π£οΈ We also have to think (...) if there is a way to align some aspects of copyright in the interest of the AI developers.
π£οΈ We have a lot of issues to align. This should be a starting point. It should at first produce some ideas of problems that a legislator or a moderator (...) might be helpful with [in] what needs to be solved.
π About Our Guest
ποΈ MEP Axel Voss (Germany, EPP)
π MEP Axel Voss
Axel Voss (CDU) is a Member of the European Parliament for Germany in the European People's Party (EPP) Group. He is the EPP Group coordinator for the Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI), a deputy member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE), and, from 2020 to 2022, a member and rapporteur in the Special Committee on Artificial Intelligence. He is (shadow-)rapporteur for the EU AI Act and was rapporteur on the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (CDSM).
