German Associations, Unions Urge EU to Create Copyright Rules for AI Tools

Forty-two German associations and trade unions representing more than 140,000 authors and performers urged the European Union to beef up draft artificial intelligence rules as they singled out the threat to their copyright from ChatGPT. Trade unions for the creative sector Verdi and DGB and associations for photographers, designers, journalists and illustrators set out their concerns in a letter to the European Commission, European Council and EU lawmakers.