2024-06-12 –, Ethical Dilema Cafe
Creative Commons has been deeply involved in shaping "better sharing" in the context of generative AI.
We held many consultations including at MozFest House Amsterdam last year, which reveal a great diversity of opinions among creators within the CC community, including artists who use generative AI tools. While we believe it's important for copyright to leave room for people to analyze existing works to create new ones, including by using statistics and machine learning to do so, we know that copyright is only one prism through which AI developments should be considered. We've explored "preference signals " which hold potential to provide an important path to reconcile different interests between those that do and do not wish their content to be used for AI training. How should preferences be expressed? What factors might influence creators' decisions? How would preference signals reside alongside CC licenses? How do these interact with opt ins and opt outs based on copyright? In this workshop, we hope to hear from participants about how best to develop new tools to support creators and sustain a thriving commons.
Brigitte is Creative Commons' Director of policy and open culture, where she drives policy reform and transforms the cultural sector in support of better sharing of knowledge and culture.
Before joining CC, she worked for a decade as a legal officer at WIPO and then ran her own consultancy, advising Europeana, SPARC Europe and others on copyright matters.
Currently located in the Netherlands where she lives with her husband and two kids, Brigitte grew up living in eight different countries across North America, Africa and Europe but Montréal is where she proudly comes from.
Brigitte is a fellow at the Canadian think tank Centre for International Governance Innovation. She holds a bachelor’s degree in law from the Université de Montréal and a master’s in law from Georgetown University. She has been a member of the Bar of Quebec since 2003.
