Urgent to establish a system to protect news copyrights

Professor Daehee Lee made the following remarks at a discussion held jointly by the Korea Newspaper Association and the Korea Press Foundation on the topic ‘News copyright protection measures in the era of generative AI’.

Generative AI has ethical and Copyright is a very important factor because fairness is important. Therefore, when big tech companies develop generative artificial intelligence technology and decide how to use news content, what standards and methods, and specific usage procedures, there are ongoing calls to consult in advance with media companies that hold copyright and establish a reasonable compensation system.

Professor Lee also said, “Open AI also keeps its learning materials strictly confidential, so there are difficulties in lawsuits from copyright holders and enforcement of regulatory rights by authorities.” He also said, “Stability AI, Midjourney It was pointed out that artificial intelligence companies that generate images such as those respond to painters who file lawsuits for copyright infringement by asking them to “tell us which specific work has been infringed.”

AI companies are news Developing AI based on this could threaten the existence of media companies, but companies do not accurately disclose how much they are actually using news for learning purposes. When Naver CEO Choi Soo-yeon recently announced a giant language model called ‘Hyperclova
||Professor Lee said, “Plaintiffs must prove with difficulty what the defendant infringed and in what way,” and “Prevent copyright infringement by creating exceptions for fair use and TDM (Text and Data Mining). In addition, precedents and norms are currently being formed,” he explained.