AI lab hot item | Michiel Van Lerbeirghe (ML6) - Copyright Transparency: An AI Firm’s Perspective

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🔥 In this 'Hot Item', Michiel Van Lerbeirghe (ML6) & the AI lab explore how the push for copyright transparency in the EU AI Act’s could impact smaller European AI providers and how we can move towards a practical solution

📌Hot Item Highlights

⏲️[00:00] Intro

⏲️[00:45] Michiel Van Lerbeirghe (ML6)

⏲️[08:28] Wrap-up & Outro

🗣️ Copyright protection is subjective: it is definitely not up to providers of foundation models to rule whether the criteria are met. However, under the current version of the AI Act, they would be required to make that assessment.

🗣️ The current obligation regarding copyright [transparency] is almost impossible to comply with. (...) The obligation is still under review, and we hope that we can evolve to a mechanism that makes more sense.

🗣️ While transparency is definitely a good thing that should be supported, (...) the upcoming [copyright transparency] obligation could prove to be very difficult, and not to say impossible, to comply with.

🗣️ Copyright can actually go very far and a lot of different content can potentially be protected by copyright. (...) From a practical point of view: where would the [transparency] obligation start and where would it end?

📌About Our Guest

🎙️ Michiel Van Lerbeirghe | Legal Counsel, ML6

🌐 Assessing the impact of the EU AI Act proposal (ML6 Blog Post)

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🌐 Michiel Van Lerbeirghe

Michiel is an IP lawyer focusing on artificial intelligence. After working for law firms for multiple years, he recently became the in-house legal counsel for ML6, a leading European service provider building and implementing AI systems for several multinationals.