AI licenses for companies and authorities

On June 1, 2024, the ordinary general meeting of members of VG WORT(the collecting society Wort manages the royalties from secondary exploitation rights to linguistic works, including radio and television, in Germany, Wickipedia) took place in Berlin. The topic of the future was AI licenses for companies and authorities. In a press release dated June 5, 2024, VG Wort announced that the members had agreed to a new edition of the rights administration agreement. This now grants so-called "AI licenses". VG Wort can now grant licenses to companies and public authorities for the use of works that are used for the development and application of AI systems. The scope of use is narrowly defined and only applies to uses within companies.

In our opinion, this innovation is an important step and a possible model for the future to enable the mass use of protected works for AI in the future.

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