Reed Smith entertainment/media lawyers Sophie Goossens and Tom Gates discuss how the EU AI Act modifies European copyright law.
In 2019, the EU created an exception to allow for text and data mining. But the more recent EU AI Act enables copyright holders to nullify the exception and prevent protected material from being used for machine learning. As a result of the AI Act, providers of general-purpose AI models will have to keep: 1) a summary of training data, and 2) records of how exception requests have been handled. Our two lawyers discuss the implications of those changes.