Copyright protection and the many ways it is perceived to be under threat were a recurring theme to proceedings at the Association of American Publishers annual Professional and Scholarly Publishing conference on February 7, reports market research firm Simba Information. Simba Information covers issues of copyright and emerging technology in its upcoming reports Global Scientific & Technical Publishing 2019-2023, Global Medical Publishing 2019-2023 and STM Online Services 2019-2023.
Copyright industries, which include book and journal publishing, music, film and entertainment software contributed $1.3 trillion, or about 7%, to the U.S. economy in 2017.
Many individual nations and trade groups around the world are examining their copyright laws. The issues are constantly being debated and negotiated.
While copyright laws and treaties around the world need updating to catch up with the internet and new business models, a whole new generation of technology is set to explode, and those technologies need to have copyright laws that strike the right balance as well.
Jule Sigall, associate general counsel, IP policy and strategy, Microsoft Corp., advocated for copyright laws that will allow the use of copyrighted material as data in a machine learning or artificial intelligence environment.
Such laws would allow AI or machine reading to pull out the unprotected ideas, facts, concepts and embodiments in an image or a work without infringement so that the data can be used to power some other capability.
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