The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism announced on the 13th that it will hold the second general meeting of the '2025 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Copyright System Improvement Consultative Group (Working Group)' at the Korean Press Center in conjunction with the Korea Copyright Commission.
At this meeting, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism will share discussions from six sessions held over the past two months by the three subcommittees formed in March of this year, which brought together stakeholders from the AI industry, rights holder organizations, academia, the legal profession, and relevant government departments, along with the latest overseas trends.
The three subcommittees are the 'Artificial Intelligence Learning Data System Subcommittee', the 'Artificial Intelligence Learning Data Transaction Activation Subcommittee', and the 'Artificial Intelligence Output Utilization Subcommittee'.
The system subcommittee diagnosed that careful review is required as there are differences of opinion surrounding the introduction of a 'text and data mining' exemption for analyzing various materials for AI learning. It was also noted that while AI technology is advancing, there is still significant demand for high-quality human-created works.
The transaction activation subcommittee plans to start operating a small subcommittee within the field of literary works this month, reflecting the opinions of AI operators. In the second half of the year, it will also review whether to expand the operational scope to other fields. The output utilization subcommittee plans to review the 'Copyright Registration Guide for Works Using Generative AI' and the 'Guide to Preventing Copyright Disputes Regarding Products of Generative AI.'
The registration guide will include information on whether generative AI outputs can be registered for copyright, as well as guidance on the registration process and actual registration cases. The dispute prevention guide will cover legal principles for determining copyright infringement, criteria for determining infringement concerning generative AI outputs, and matters that each party, including rights holders and AI operators, needs to be aware of.
The two guides will be reviewed at this meeting, and public feedback will be gathered at a public briefing scheduled for the 20th, with plans to publish them by the end of this month.
Jeong Hyang-mi, head of the Copyright Bureau at the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, said, 'I hope that through these guides, AI operators, rights holders, and general users can alleviate some of their questions regarding generative AI and copyright.'