Google Says AI Copyright Debate Needs Tweaks, Not a Full Overhaul
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According to AI TIMES, Google said on August 26 that as AI spreads, it is more realistic to revise intellectual property rules with targeted…
According to AI TIMES, Google said on August 26 that as AI spreads, it is more realistic to revise intellectual property rules with targeted fixes rather than fundamentally overturning the existing framework. Kent Walker, the company’s president, argued that because AI model efficiency has improved 300 times in two years, policymakers should design clear text-and-data-mining exceptions for training on public content along with a right for creators to opt out of training. He also stressed that patents and copyrights should not be bundled together and should be addressed separately. On copyright issues, Google said input data used for training should be distinguished from the outputs AI produces, and that infringement should be judged based on the outputs. It added that copyright law alone has limits in dealing with problems such as deepfakes that unlawfully replicate a person’s face and voice, and that separate legal frameworks and technical safeguards are needed. In the end, Google suggested finding a compromise within the system that protects creators’ control rights without blocking AI innovation.
Perspective
This statement is significant because it reframes the clash between AI and copyright not as a binary choice between permission and prohibition, but as a coordination issue that combines training exceptions with an opt-out right. For the industry, it reads as a call for predictable operating rules rather than sweeping regulatory uncertainty, and for creators, it signals that the discussion can continue only if at least some control mechanisms are built into the system. In particular, the approach of separating deepfakes as a distinct issue suggests that future AI regulation may not converge on copyright alone, but instead become more specialized by purpose.
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