Artificial Intelligence and copyright in the cultural heritage sector: views from Creative Commons

Developments in artificial intelligence (AI) present a host of exciting opportunities for GLAMs (galleries, libraries, archives and museums) in the digital world. These range from the development of models or algorithms perfected through data processing, to mining, analysing and enriching datasets with new metadata. CC fully supports GLAMs in using the massive amounts of data in their digital collections for AI-training purposes (including machine-learning) in order to fulfil their public interest missions. This uncertainty is likely to have a chilling effect on GLAMs wishing to take advantage of AI technologies. A flowchart helps visualise whether the licenses are triggered and if so, what conditions may apply.