Unlocking the Future: How AI Copyright Licensing Could Revolutionize the GAI Market Overnight
In the GAI context, there are a growing number of collective licensing solutions to address the tremendous scale of GAI training. CCC is an example of a company that evolved to create innovative collective licensing solutions for various types of organizations, including businesses and academic institutions, and for a diverse range of applications, including the use of copyrighted materials with AI systems. CCC’s Annual Copyright License offers reuse rights licensing for copyright owners to easily license their works in a streamlined approach. Created by Humans is a collective licensing platform dedicated to authors of books and other literary works, and Pro Sound Effects developed as a private dataset of audio for flexible licensing. ProRata.ai prides itself as being the first ethical AI search engine and has partnered with more than 500 leading publications providing attribution and revenue shares with all licensors. Protégé acts as an intermediary between AI companies and rights holders that seek to license their audiovisual works for AI training. Getty Images permits legally protected AI image generation by compensating creators for the use of their visual works in AI models. These are just a few of the many options in the GAI licensing market for copyrighted works, and more are being launched to satisfy the needs of users without compromising copyright protections.