Culture defends innovation but also its rights – Liberation

“I say it very clear, it’s a band of thieves …” (Grochhables in the Assembly) “We are not with the Trump, here” (laughs in the room). The public gathered this Saturday morning in the auditorium of the National Library of France savor the punchlines of Pascal Rogard. It is not today, on this round table organized as a prelude to the international summit on artificial intelligence, that the charismatic boss of the SACD, which represents the interest of the authors, will begin to chew its words.

Didn’t he just be invited to speak at heart open by Rachida Dati, Minister of Culture who fought a lot to obtain this weekend of cultural debates on AI? So let’s stop with euphemisms: global tech companies, open ai and others did not “harvest” the web to train their models of generative artificial intelligence, he says, they “looted” thousands of ‘Protected works. It is therefore time for creators and having rights to claim their due.

Hochement of general heads in the assembly: here, everyone seems to agree. It is not today that this notion of “looting” of works by AI will be debated in public. Too bad: we had understood that it was central in the argument of Anglo-Saxon companies to refuse any compensation to European creators. The question was sketched by the director general of MK2 cinemas, Elisha karmitzwhich recalled how two models of protection of authors were currently clarified: on the one hand the Anglo-Saxon “fair use” which more envisages the creation in open source, on the other the copyright to the French , more protective. On another round table, the composer Jean-Michel Jarre questioned the distinction between looting and inspiration, recalling that all …

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