Protecting creative work in the age of artificial intelligence

The EU Parliament has voted on a report that looks at the relationship between generative artificial intelligence (AI) and copyright. In the future, European creative professionals should be better protected and at the same time the development of AI in Europe should be made possible. Above all, the report calls for more transparency in the use of copyrighted content by AI systems. Providers of generative AI should disclose which works they used to train their models. In addition, rights holders should receive appropriate compensation if their content is used for training or the functioning of such systems. At the same time, authors should be given the opportunity to exclude their works from being used by AI. In addition, MEPs are in favor of developing a European licensing market for copyrighted content to facilitate agreements between AI companies and rights holders. The press and news media sector should also be better protected, as its content is often processed by AI systems. In this context, appropriate remuneration for media companies and the protection of media pluralism and information diversity are emphasized. Attention: The voting results shown on the right only reflect the voting behavior of the 96 German MEPs and not that of all 720 MEPs. The own-initiative report was adopted overall with 460 votes in favour, 71 against and 88 abstentions. Of the German MEPs, 58 voted for and eleven against. There were twelve abstentions.

Vote breakdown