Unlocking the Future: How AI Copyright Licensing Could Revolutionize the GAI Market Overnight
News media publishers have been at the forefront of AI licensing. These are just a few of those agreements:
When courts wrongly reject the existence and significance of a clearly robust AI copyright licensing market through faulty fair use analyses, they threaten to undermine the rights of copyright holders and adversely impact the existing and future licenses between these copyright holders and AI companies.
Copyright owners of literary works are not the only participants of this thriving AI licensing market. GAI technologies are developing beyond the large language model context, leading other copyright owners of a variety of works of authorship to negotiate and enter licensing agreements. For example, music companies including Warner, Universal Music Group (UMG), and Sony are negotiating licensing agreements for their music to train GAI models with AI companies like Suno and Udio.
