Legal Protection for Digital Illustrators’ Data and Copyright to Train Artificial Intelligence-Generated Images
Abstract
Technological advancements have disrupted the creative industry with the rise of Artificial Intelligence, particularly in the field of visual art. A legal issue stemming from this development is that Artificial Intelligence companies utilize illustrators’ data shared on the internet to train the technology without consent. Furthermore, Artificial Intelligence companies are quick to release their innovations to the public without proper legal consideration. This article aims to analyze the legal protection of digital illustrators’ data and copyrights that are used to train image-generating Artificial Intelligence. The research employs a normative legal method, utilizing statutory and comparative approach. The findings indicate that the current law in Indonesia is still inadequate in addressing the challenges posed by Artificial Intelligence companies that scrape illustrators’ data to train their products. There is also a lack of compensation in the form of royalties for digital illustrators, which can have a significant impact on their economic well-being. The article suggests that legal protection should be pursued for digital illustrators whose data is used without consent to train Artificial Intelligence, and a system of royalties should be established. This would require Artificial Intelligence companies that train their machines to create visual artworks to first obtain a license from the illustrators, and every time their data is used to generate a work of art, a royalty must be paid to the illustrators to preserve their copyright.
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