🚨WE NEED TO TALK about Satya Nadella's comments on copyright and AI. This week the Microsoft CEO went public with his desire for an overhaul of copyright laws that would allow hi-techs to train their generative AI models on creators’ content without consent or compensation. Hailing Japan’s copyright regime which permits unauthorised AI scraping he said governments elsewhere needed to introduce a new framework based on “fair use”.

“What are the bounds for copyright, which obviously have to be protected? What’s fair use? For any society to move forward, you need to know what is fair use,” The Times reported him saying. “If I read a set of textbooks and I create new knowledge, is that fair use? If everything is just copyright then I shouldn’t be reading textbooks and learning because that would be copyright infringement.”

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