The European Commission has opened a consultation period to review the copyright directive in the digital market, in force since 2019. The objective is to address challenges such as generative artificial intelligence and live event piracy. Until June 25, contributions from interested parties will be collected to modernize the EU's legal framework.
Technical development: challenges of attribution and algorithmic transparency 🤖
The review raises specific technical issues. Generative AI, by training on large volumes of data, blurs the line between inspiration and copying. Current text and data mining (TDM) systems lack mechanisms to trace the origin of each generated element. Additionally, live stream piracy requires real-time detection systems, something current tools cannot achieve without affecting service latency.
Brussels discovers that the internet is not a giant CD-ROM 😅
The EU has realized that its 2019 directive, designed when AI was science fiction and streams were pirated with a phone recording the TV, needs a facelift. Now they are asking for opinions from everyone, from tech giants to the local YouTuber. Surely the contributions will be brief, polite, and full of consensus. Or maybe not, and they will end up defining what a meme is in 47 languages.