Nina George, a German bestselling author whose works has been translated into 37 languages, described the TDM exception as “devastating”. Exclusions from copyright, she said, were originally intended to balance the interest of authors against those of the public, such as allowing schools to photocopy texts. “These AI exceptions for commercial use mean that business interest will be served for the first time,” she said. “This is a shift of paradigms [and] a perverted way to bend copyrights and authors’ rights to serve the interest of a few businesses.”
George, who is president of honour at the European Writers Council, said she had no way of finding out if any of her works had been used to feed generative AI systems. “The lack of instruments to enforce any rights, this is the scandal in the construction of the AI Act [in] relation to copyright directive.”
EU Accused Of Leaving ‘Devastating’ Copyright Loophole In AI Act
