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CTOnews.com June 6 news, the Japanese Ministry of Culture and the Cabinet AI Strategy Department recently issued an explanatory document on the relationship between artificial Intelligence and copyright, which was used at the Japanese Cabinet AI Strategy Group meeting held on May 15. The document has been a hot topic since June 3.

The document from the Japanese Cultural Agency of ▲ points out that the role of copyright is to "protect works that 'creatively express thoughts or feelings'", but this does not include data (facts) and ideas (style of writing, style of painting). In other words, the relationship between AI and copyright should be considered separately in the "generation / use phase" and the "AI development / learning phase".

This means that when publishing AI-generated images or selling a collection of illustrations, the same law applies to ordinary copyright infringement. If the AI image is found to be similar to or depends on the existing work (based on the creation of the existing work), the copyright owner can apply for damages or injunction for copyright infringement, and the infringer may also be subject to criminal punishment.

On the other hand, when using other people's copyright works for AI development, if "the use behavior is not to encroach on the thoughts or feelings expressed by others, the copyright protected works can be used without the permission of the copyright owner". The official document gives a counterexample: if the necessary information is extracted from landscape photos to make 3D CG images, but the purpose is to make images that can feel the "essential characteristics" expressed in the original photos, then this behavior also constitutes infringement.

After consulting the document, CTOnews.com learned that the act of using the original content beyond the recognized necessary limit, or improperly harming the interests of the copyright owner, was not bound by the interpretation.

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