{"id":17569,"date":"2025-01-31T17:38:41","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T16:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/31\/the-guardian-view-on-ai-and-copyright-law-big-tech-must-pay-editorial\/"},"modified":"2025-01-31T17:38:41","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T16:38:41","slug":"the-guardian-view-on-ai-and-copyright-law-big-tech-must-pay-editorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/31\/the-guardian-view-on-ai-and-copyright-law-big-tech-must-pay-editorial\/","title":{"rendered":"The Guardian view on AI and copyright law: big tech must pay | Editorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elton John, Paul McCartney and thousands of other artists have called for protection from data crawling. The government must listen<\/p>\n<p>Asked for a definition of intellectual property and ChatGPT answered: \u201cIP refers to creations of the mind that are legally recognized and protected from unauthorized use by others.\u201d The bot\u2019s summary helpfully ended: \u201cIntellectual property laws exist to encourage innovation and creativity by granting creators exclusive rights over their work for a certain period.<\/p>\n<p>Too bad that the tech giants behind such artificial intelligence (AI) tools have chosen to play fast and loose with the rules. As Silicon Valley bosses were expressing concerns about \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jan\/29\/openai-chatgpt-deepseek-china-us-ai-models\">the distillation<\/a>\u201d of their models with the launch of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/jan\/26\/the-guardian-view-on-a-global-ai-race-geopolitics-innovation-and-the-rise-of-chaos\">Chinese DeepSeek chatbot<\/a> earlier this week, the House of Lords was debating legislation to protect against unfettered data\u00a0crawling by AI.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jan\/31\/the-guardian-view-on-ai-and-copyright-law-big-tech-must-pay\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e45fc58d16a620ede99e4c132348e4f292929328\/0_141_3000_1800\/master\/3000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=e7331e696cd703d36a842fc0e8bc4d9d\" title=\"The Guardian view on AI and copyright law: big tech must pay | Editorial\" \/>Elton John, Paul McCartney and thousands of other artists have called for protection from data crawling. The government must listen<br \/>\nAsked for a definition of intellectual property and ChatGPT answered: \u201cIP refers to creations of the mind that are legally recognized and protected from unauthorized use by others.\u201d The bot\u2019s summary helpfully ended: \u201cIntellectual property laws exist to encourage innovation and creativity by granting creators exclusive rights over their work for a certain period.<br \/>\nToo bad that the tech giants behind such artificial intelligence (AI) tools have chosen to play fast and loose with the rules. As Silicon Valley bosses were expressing concerns about \u201cthe distillation\u201d of their models with the launch of the Chinese DeepSeek chatbot earlier this week, the House of Lords was debating legislation to protect against unfettered data\u00a0crawling by AI. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elton John, Paul McCartney and thousands of other artists have called for protection from data crawling. The government must listen Asked for a definition of intellectual property and ChatGPT answered: \u201cIP refers to creations of the mind that are legally recognized and protected from unauthorized use by others.\u201d The bot\u2019s summary helpfully ended: \u201cIntellectual property &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/31\/the-guardian-view-on-ai-and-copyright-law-big-tech-must-pay-editorial\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Guardian view on AI and copyright law: big tech must pay | Editorial<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17569"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}