The Human Perspective in Gen AI Input and Output
Speakers:
- Prof. Christophe Geiger (Director - ILEO; Full Professor - Luiss Guido Carli)
- Francesca Di Lazzaro (Member - ILEO; PhD Candidate - Luiss Guido Carli)
- Štěpánka Havlíková (Visiting Researcher - ILEO; PhD Candidate - Masaryk University)
- Chair: Prof. Christophe Geiger
Date and Time:
April 15, 2025, 16:00h.
Room: Aula 13 - Viale Pola, Luiss Guido Carli
Link
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Abstracts
Sustainability as a Guiding Principle for Copyright Reform? Moral Rights Issues concerning the Use of Generative AI in the Field of Research and Education
Prof. Christophe Geiger and Francesca Di Lazzaro
This research addresses the complex relationship between Generative AI (Gen AI), sustainability, and copyright, focusing on the use of copyrighted materials for research and education. Gen AI can be transformative for allowing broader access to content, for example by overcoming language barriers, compiling information in very large datasets, and enabling customized educational experiences that strengthen incentives to learn, thus helping to level the playing field both in research and education. These functions contribute to the fulfilment of the right to education as provided by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations (specifically, SDG no. 4) and the right to research, as embodied in the human rights framework. On the other hand, Gen AI output pose risks in terms of false or lack of attribution to creators, scientific integrity and manipulation of works, prejudicing the moral interests of the authors, which are also part of the human rights framework. This article offers some preliminary suggestions on how sustainability can be used as a guiding principle to find the right balance between facilitated access to knowledge for education and research and compliance with the moral rights of the authors when dealing with Gen AI. The two pillars of this approach are the setup of a transparent and "human centric" copyright framework regulating Gen AI, but also appropriate governance structure that can easily provide relief in case of moral rights violations that would be prejudicial for research and education, and ethical innovation more broadly.
The publication is available in Open Access: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5191571
Technical Challenges of Rightsholders’ Opt-out From Gen AI Training
Štěpánka Havlíková
The Robert Kneschke v. LAION decision has sparked new debates on the legality of training generative AI on publicly available, often copyrighted, data. While text and data mining (TDM) exceptions offer a potential legal pathway, their practical implementation hits the barrier of technical limitations — such as the lack of standardized machine-readable opt-outs or technical limitations of existing opt-out means. Although it may be expected that a global market standard will soon be introduced considering the soon-to-be-effective regulation of general-purpose AI models via the EU AI Act, such solution still offers merely black-and-white choice to allow or disallow AI training lacking a scalable licensing option (beyond individual deals with major licensors). Instead, solutions such as machine-readable licensing or collective management, could offer a balanced compromise between protecting rightsholders and fostering AI development..
The publication is available in Open Access: https://www.jipitec.eu/jipitec/article/view/422
Program
- 16:00 – 16:10 Chair and introduction
Christophe Geiger, Professor of Law and Director of the Innovation Law and Ethics Observatory, Luiss, Rome - 16:10 – 16:30 Sustainability as a Guiding Principle for Copyright Reform? Moral Rights Issues concerning the Use of Generative AI in the Field of Research and Education
Christophe Geiger, Professor of Law and Director of the Innovation Law and Ethics Observatory, Luiss, Rome
Francesca Di Lazzaro, PhD Candidate and Member of the Innovation Law and Ethics Observatory, Luiss, Rome - 16:30 – 16:50 Technical Challenges of Rightsholders’ Opt-out From Gen AI Training
Štěpánka Havlíková, Visiting Researcher of the Innovation Law and Ethics Observatory and PhD Candidate, Masaryk University, Brno - 16:50 – 17:15 Discussion
About the Speakers
Prof. Christophe Geiger
Professor of Law and Director of the Innovation Law and Ethics Observatory, Luiss, Rome
E-mail: cgeiger@luiss.it
Christophe Geiger is Professor of Law at Luiss Guido Carli University and Director as well as founder of the Innovation Law and Ethics Observatory (ILEO). Previously to his Luiss appointment, he taught at the Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI) of the University of Strasbourg (France), which he leaded as Director General and Director of the Research Department for 11 years. In addition, he is Spangenberg Fellow in Law & Technology at Case Western Reserve University School of Law’s Spangenberg Center for Law, Technology & the Art, has been an affiliated senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich (Germany) from 2008 to 2022, and President of the ATRIP, the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property from 2022 to 2024.
Francesca Di Lazzaro
PhD Candidate and Member of the Innovation Law and Ethics Observatory, Luiss, Rome
E-mail: dilazzarof@luiss.it
Francesca Di Lazzaro graduated summa cum laude in Law at Luiss Guido Carli University, with a thesis on comparative copyright law. In 2018, she obtained a Second Level Master in Competition and Innovation Law at Luiss Guido Carli University summa cum laude. Francesca is currently a PhD Candidate at Luiss Guido Carli University, and her research aims to define what sustainable copyright is and how it can be achieved, starting from the analysis of the Sustainable Development Goals as a theoretical framework. She is also investigating how artificial intelligence can contribute to the achievement of sustainable development. The title of her thesis is "Connecting the Dots Between Copyright and Sustainable Development Goals: A Roadmap for Sustainable Copyright".
Štěpánka Havlíková
Visiting Researcher of the Innovation Law and Ethics Observatory and PhD Candidate, Institute of Law and Technology at the Masaryk University, Brno
E-mail: Stepanka.Havlikova@dentons.com
Štěpánka Havlíková is a PhD Candidate at the Institute of Law and Technology at the Masaryk University and a Senior Associate in Dentons law firm currently seconded to a global developer of AI models advising on AI and Data Privacy. Her dissertation research is dedicated to Web Scraping for Purposes of AI Training from perspective of EU copyright law. Štěpánka regularly publishes and speaks at conferences on text and data mining and EU TDM copyright exceptions. Štěpánka is also lecturer at the Czech Technical University, Charles University in Prague as well as Masaryk University in Brno. In her attorney practice, Štěpánka focuses on Technology, Media & Telecommunications sector (TMT) while specializing namely on artificial intelligence, intellectual property, software and licensing, data privacy, digitalisation as well as technology transactions & tech-related disputes.