Co-generation of data: Copyright and data protection rights in co-generated input and output of generative AI – Principles (November 2024)

Context. These Principles augment the comparative study published as Copyright and Data Protection Rights in Co-Generated Input and Output of Generative AI, Report, November 2024,Global Partnership on AI. Scope. These Principles are intended to be used by legislators addressing new Copyright or Data Protection Rights in Co-Generated In- and Output. Thus they are not high-level policy principles, such as the Hiroshima Principles, but rather they serve as general guidelines that can be followed by legislators when drafting specific legal provisions and regulations concerning Gen AI. They aim to balance the interests of various parties involved with, or affected by, the development or deployment of Generative AI (‘Gen AI’), while fostering innovation and promoting responsible development of AI technologies. It should be noted that the Principles are of a preliminary nature; they are neither exhaustive nor final. For the ongoing discussion on the regulation of Copyright and Data Protection Rights with regard to generative AI that goes beyond these Principles, this means that the Principles cannot be brought forward as an argument for or against additional Rights.