Dr Maja Bogataj Jančič participates in the National Assembly debate on the EU AI Act
Dr Maja Bogataj Jančič emphasised the importance of broader involvement in Slovenia’s preparation for EU AI legislation during the debate in the National Assembly.
Dr Maja Bogataj Jančič LL.M, LL.M., founder of the Open Data and Intellectual Property Institute (ODIPI) and co-chair of the Global Partnership for Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) Data Governance Working Group, today took part in a debate on the EU AI Act proposal at the National Assembly. In her address, she stressed the importance of a concerted effort and a more intensive societal debate in Slovenia on the impact of AI on the future of work and society. She stressed that Slovenia needs greater involvement of all stakeholders in order to prepare effectively for the future challenges posed by this technology.
The District Court of Hamburg ruled in the case of Kneschke v. LAION e.V. that LAION did not infringe the copyright of photographer Kneschke, as the use of his photograph was covered by the exception for text and data mining (TDM) for scientific purposes.
“Can copyright bring artificial intelligence to its knees? Which other circumstances may cause that the “making” of generative AI can dramatically change in the (near) future. This short paper presents potential challenges that copyright poses to the training of the machines on large amount of data. Different jurisdictions address these issues differently. In the USA the legality of these activities is tested in several court cases. Do gentlemen’s agreements and pragmatic symbiosis known from the “search engines business model” provide sufficient basis and/or incentive for the business model of “making” generative AI business model as well?
On Friday, September 27, 2024, the last day of the international conference “Converging Realms: Law, Technology, and Society in the Age of Ethical and Multi-Agent AI” took place. Dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič took part in the 4th panel entitled Artificial Intelligence+Research.
Today, September 26, 2024, a specialist training for persons who will perform the role of data stewards or related profiles of data experts was organized by the Central Technical Library (CTK) at the University of Ljubljana as part of the SPOZNAJ project, at which Dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič also lectured on the subject of open science and copyright.