In order to further understand the responses of domestic and international industries to copyright issues relating to AI and to promote the communications of public opinions, the Taiwan Intellectual Property Office held the " Industrial Response to Copyright Issues in Generative AI " on July 5, 2024 at the Linze Hall of the National Taiwan University. Copyright experts and scholars were invited to be the speakers of the seminar. More than 200 people from industries, governments and academia attended the seminar.

Director General of the Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (TIPO), Mr. Liao Cheng-wei, in his opening speech pointed out that the importance of AI technology and the rapid development of generative AI have brought new challenges. Many countries are still carefully evaluating how to reach a balance between protecting the interests of copyright owners and developing the AI ​​industry. This seminar is helpful in understanding the industry’s strategies for responding to copyright issues relating to generative AI.

The seminar has two major sessions for discussion, i.e., "Copyright Challenges and Development of Generative AI" and "Responsible AI Practice and Application in the Copyright Field". For the first session, Assistant Professor Zhang Zhong-xin of School of Law of Soochow University analyzed the copyright issues involved in generative AI, reiterated the rule of payments by users, and called for the proper redistribution of the interests of the new technologies. Mr. Lai Wen-zhi, the attorney at law of Infoshare Tech Law Office, provided the suggestions regarding risk assessments and controls at each stage from service establishment to use, including using high-quality corporate self-service to introduce generative AI to enterprises. Professor Tsai, Zong-han of the Department of Computer Science & Engineering of National Central University shared his experiences that the training data obtained from the cooperations of the National Science Council's Chinese large-scale language model TAID with the public and private se with Taiwanese elements.

For the second session, the representatives from the AI ​​industry demonstrated how generative AI can be generated responsibly, including obtaining authorization and using public domain data to train models that can be used safely, using technologies such as filtering mechanisms to avoid generating content that infringes the rights of third parties, and how to treat and respond to copyright issues in the model training process.

The TIPO stated that intellectual property (patents, trademarks and copyrights) are highly internationally harmonized matters, and AI and copyright laws involve a wide range of aspects. Understanding the impact of relevant technologies on the industry and operational practices will help to meet the opportunities and challenges brought by AI technology. In the future, the TIPO will continue to pay attention to the development trends of various countries as a reference for Taiwan's policies.
 
(Elaborated based on the news published by the TIPO.)