TDM opt-out protocol

fep-fee admin — 2023-06-21T10:51:47Z

On 5 June, FEP co-organised a webinar with AIE and EDRLab on the machine-readable Text and Data Mining (TDM) Protocol that was developed to allow publishers to opt-out of their works from TDM activities (including AI training). The Protocol, its objectives and functioning were presented and the audience had the opportunity to ask both technical and legal questions about the use of the protocol. With the rise of generative AI, it is important to underline that the EU TDM exception and its opt-out mechanism are the only way to legally ensure that publisher content cannot be mined to train an AI (for purposes other than public research). While further improvements of the Protocol are possible in the future, it is already ready to use and FEP encourages publishers to adopt it, so it may become a de facto standard.

Link to the TDM opt protocol: https://www.w3.org/2022/tdmrep/

For more information:
Quentin Deschandelliers
Legal Advisor
qdeschandelliers@fep-fee.eu

FEP position paper on Artificial Intelligence (AI)

fep-fee admin — 2023-06-16T07:10:00Z

On the occasion of its General Assembly in Paris on 15 June, the Federation of European Publishers members adopted a position paper on Artificial Intelligence. The paper stresses the opportunities that AI can provide for the book value chain to optimise production and distribution processes and provide new insights to benefit all.

At the same time, the paper emphasises that AI must comply with copyright and intellectual property rules and is not exempted from copyright rules, particularly when it uses pre-existing works. European publishers underline that is fundamental that proportionate transparency obligations should apply when AI is deployed and that AI developers should guarantee the transparency of their training dataset.

Download the position paper