What kinds of copyright risks do organisations face when using artificial intelligence?
The use of artificial intelligence involves copyright risks if an employee copies or uploads materials such as articles, reports, images or extracts from publications to an AI service without the necessary permission. This type of feeding of data into AI constitutes copying within the meaning of the Copyright Act. The use of content generated by AI may also involve a risk if the end result contains a copyrighted work or a variation of such a work. Unauthorised use may result in the organisation being held liable for compensation and suffering reputational damage.
How can artificial intelligence be used while respecting copyright?
Kopiosto has developed legally certain and comprehensive licences for organisations to ensure the responsible use of artificial intelligence from a copyright perspective. For example, the copying licence for companies was extended to allow companies to input copyrighted material into artificial intelligence systems under certain conditions.
A licence for the use of artificial intelligence is also available to the public sector, and at present, municipalities and wellbeing services counties have obtained the licence. State administration is not currently using the licence due to insufficient funding. Indeed, Kopiosto holds the view that the state budget allocation for licences based on the Copyright Act should be increased. In this way, artificial intelligence can be used responsibly while respecting copyright, and authors can also be compensated for new forms of use of their works.
We have designed our licences together with our member organisations representing the creative industry, and we distribute the proceeds from these licences to the creative industry.