Our CEO was delighted to be part of the CEPIC delegation to Brussels with Sylvie Fodor of CEPIC and Emily Shelly, MD of Alamy. The event was organised by a broad coalition of creative and cultural organisations across Europe, to lobby for transparency provisions in the EU AI Act which many people believe will become the gold standard for AI regulation.
As Emily said in her opening statement, there can be no transparency in output if there is no transparency in the input.
Far from being a barrier to innovation, the relatively small license fees enables innovation without fear of litigation, which is currently absorbing countless millions that could be spent on innovation.
Transparency is in fact a “market enabler”, whilst in contrast the lack of transparency is delaying economic transactions. Responsible clients want to be certain that trustworthy information has been sourced from trustworthy suppliers. Products clearly need transparency to be marketable.
It’s clear that it should not be the onerous responsibility of individual creators to check whether their work has been copied. Developers know what they have used and can easily make that known, but they choose not to.
Remove the need for litigation, pay the license fee which would be cheaper, and innovate effectively.
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