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Shadow opinions (1)

OPINION on intellectual property rights for the development of artificial intelligence technologies
2020/09/03
Committee: CULT
Dossiers: 2020/2015(INI)
Documents: PDF(130 KB) DOC(45 KB)
Authors: [{'name': 'Sabine VERHEYEN', 'mepid': 96756}]

Amendments (11)

Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls that artificial intelligence (AI) should serve humanity and that its benefits should be widely shared; stresses that, in the long-term, AI may surpass human intellectual capacity; stresses the need thereforee need to establish safeguards such as human control, transparency and verification of AI decision-making;
2020/04/08
Committee: CULT
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Stresses that before launching any new initiative on copyright, ongoing international negotiations should be unblocked at WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights focusing on limitations and exceptions for libraries and archives and limitations and exceptions for education;
2020/04/08
Committee: CULT
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses that the EU should play an essential role in laying down basic principles on the development, programming and use of AI, notably in its regulations and codes of conduct;
2020/04/08
Committee: CULT
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Recalls that AI cannot only perform activities which used to be exclusively human, but that it can also acquire and develop autonomous and cognitive features, through experience learning; stresses that AI systems can autonomously create and generate cultural and creative works, with only minimum human input; notes, moreover, that AI systems can evolve in an unpredictable way, by creating original works unknown to their initial programmers;deleted
2020/04/08
Committee: CULT
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Considers that intellectual property rights for the development of artificial intelligence technologies should be distinguished from the IPR for content generated by AI; stresses the need to remove unnecessary legal barriers to AI development in order to unlock the potential of such technologies in culture and education;
2020/04/08
Committee: CULT
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
4. Emphasises the need to address copyright issues relating to AI-generated cultural and creative works; underlines, in that context, the need to assess whether the notion of the human creator as the basis for the intellectual property rights (IPR) system is still adequate for AI- generated works; considers that automatically assigning the copyright of AI-generated works to the copyright holder of the AI software, algorithm or programme may not be the best way forward;deleted
2020/04/08
Committee: CULT
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
5. ExpStresses concern about the vacuum left between IPR and the development of AI, which could make cultural and creative industries vulnerable to AI-generated copyright-protected workthe need to monitor the evidence of substantial market failure or harm occurred due to the use of AI, in particular in cultural and creative industries; calls on the Commission to support a horizontal, evidence-based and technologically neutral approach to IPR applicable to AI- generated works;
2020/04/08
Committee: CULT
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Points out that the most efficient way of reducing bias in AI systems is by ensuring that the maximum of data is available to train them, for which it is necessary to limit any unnecessary barrier to text-and-data mining and to facilitate cross-border uses;
2020/04/08
Committee: CULT
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
6. Emphasises the need to address the issue of liability for copyright infringements made by AI systems, as well as the issue of data ownership.remaining uncertainties related to the legal performance of text and data mining that developers of AI may still face following the adoption of Directive (EU) 2019/790; calls on the Commission to issue guidance on how reserving the rights other than by machine readable means shall be made publicly available for all in a centralised way; considers that the issue of data ownership goes against further enhancing data access and use of data;
2020/04/08
Committee: CULT
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Stresses that access to and use of data can equally be prevented by other type of protection measures protecting data as property, such as sui generis rights protection of data basis; reminds that according to the first evaluation of Directive 96/9/EC on the legal protection of databases, the introduction of new “sui generis right” has achieved a decrease in the production of European databases; therefore encourages the Commission to repeal the Directive in line with the Commission's one in, one out principle;
2020/04/08
Committee: CULT
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Recalls the EU’s ethical duty to support development around the world by facilitating cross-border cooperation on AI, including through limitations and exceptions for cross-border research and text-and-data mining, and therefore urges the speeding up of international action at the World Intellectual Property Organization to achieve this;
2020/04/08
Committee: CULT