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17/10/2024 - AI, Copyright, and Blockchain: Protecting Intellectual Property (Italy)

argument: Notizie/News - Intellectual Property Law

Source: ZeroUno

As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to generate vast amounts of data across creative and professional sectors, questions surrounding copyright and intellectual property rights have become more pressing. This article explores how Blockchain technology is being leveraged to address AI-related copyright issues. AI models, such as those based on generative adversarial networks (GANs), often create content based on datasets of pre-existing works, raising concerns about copyright infringement. Demonstrating a clear violation of copyright is difficult because AI systems, like those using stable diffusion technology, do not replicate original works directly but reassemble them using statistical models.

Blockchain, with its inherent ability to provide unchangeable, verifiable records, offers a potential solution. Specialized Blockchain marketplaces are emerging, allowing content creators to register their datasets, validate intellectual property ownership, and track usage by AI systems. Users who wish to leverage these datasets for training AI models can do so by paying a fee, ensuring that the dataset creators are compensated and their intellectual property rights are protected.

The article highlights how Blockchain can serve as a powerful tool to safeguard against unauthorized use of data in AI training, providing creators with real-time tracking of dataset usage and ensuring transparent compensation mechanisms. This innovative application of Blockchain may help resolve many of the copyright challenges surrounding AI-generated content.