Copyright to be matched to `AI era`
Kim Soo Yeon | newsnews@ | 2017-12-04 10:41:16
[Digital Times, Kim Soo-yeon] The Korean government handles copyright laws in accordance with the circumstances of artificial intelligence (AI) technology. It will reflect the increasing use of AI technology in the creation of contents such as composing and writing articles around the world.
According to government officials, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korean Copyright Commission have decided to establish legal grounds to cope with copyright issues that may arise as the use of AI in content creation increases. Therefore, the government plans to draft a bill to revise the copyright law in the next year.
The Korea Copyright Commission has recently set up a business plan that includes these contents, and from January next year, the Copyright Policy Division of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and the Law Commission of the Copyright Commission will start work to prepare amendments.
The goal of the revision plan is to find out the copyright issues that may arise in the process of building Big Data, the core asset of the AI era, and to draft legal and institutional grounds to deal with them. "We will also discuss how to protect the rights of the contents using AI technology and the protection period," he said. Adding that if the amendment comes out, the government will initiate it into the government at an appropriate time.
First, the Ministry of Culture will release a report on copyright issues to cope with technological changes in the environment, which will become the basis of the amendment this month through the Copyright Commission. This report is the result of research conducted by the Copyright Committee at the Technology and Law Center of Seoul National University`s Industry and Academy Collaboration Center from May to November. According to the `contribution of creation`, it is the key to decide who should look at the copyright subject. Especially, it will include methodologies such as how to calculate creative contribution and quantify. It also contains an analysis of how it is reasonable to approach the copyright issue between the person who first created the algorithm of the AI program and the creator of the second work by inputting various big data into the algorithm.
Meanwhile, a representative of the committee said, "It is possible to judge whether AI technology used in creation is a simple program or a creative subject explaining the researchers by analyzing the degree of `AI contribution` and `human contribution` in a single creation."
By Kim Soo Yeon newsnews@
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According to government officials, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korean Copyright Commission have decided to establish legal grounds to cope with copyright issues that may arise as the use of AI in content creation increases. Therefore, the government plans to draft a bill to revise the copyright law in the next year.
The Korea Copyright Commission has recently set up a business plan that includes these contents, and from January next year, the Copyright Policy Division of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and the Law Commission of the Copyright Commission will start work to prepare amendments.
The goal of the revision plan is to find out the copyright issues that may arise in the process of building Big Data, the core asset of the AI era, and to draft legal and institutional grounds to deal with them. "We will also discuss how to protect the rights of the contents using AI technology and the protection period," he said. Adding that if the amendment comes out, the government will initiate it into the government at an appropriate time.
First, the Ministry of Culture will release a report on copyright issues to cope with technological changes in the environment, which will become the basis of the amendment this month through the Copyright Commission. This report is the result of research conducted by the Copyright Committee at the Technology and Law Center of Seoul National University`s Industry and Academy Collaboration Center from May to November. According to the `contribution of creation`, it is the key to decide who should look at the copyright subject. Especially, it will include methodologies such as how to calculate creative contribution and quantify. It also contains an analysis of how it is reasonable to approach the copyright issue between the person who first created the algorithm of the AI program and the creator of the second work by inputting various big data into the algorithm.
Meanwhile, a representative of the committee said, "It is possible to judge whether AI technology used in creation is a simple program or a creative subject explaining the researchers by analyzing the degree of `AI contribution` and `human contribution` in a single creation."
By Kim Soo Yeon newsnews@