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Communication to the public is about to shape the future of AI copyright We are probably squarely in the middle of the AI copyright regulatory cycle, judging by previous technological inflexion points. The first half of this cycle has been dominated rightly by copyright input cases, that is, cases that try to discern whether training an AI with content found online and without authorisation from the owners amounts to copyright infringement. After dozens of lawsuits, we're starting to see some hints of what the future may bring, all technological revolutions inevitably go through a period of legal uncertainty to eventually settle into some form of equilibrium, and in the last week we've seen a couple of settlements between the parties, particularly in… https://www.technollama.co.uk/communication-to-the-public-is-about-to-shape-the-future-of-ai-copyright