M20 policy brief: AI’s impact on the intellectual property rights of journalists

Executive summary

Information integrity is key to economic development, governance and the stability of international relations. So too, is the intellectual property regime, which is why international agreements on Intellectual Property (IP) and copyright have existed for decades. The rapid growth of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) has upended the global copyright system, necessitating a robust discussion of enforcement and protections for journalistic content used in Large Language Models (LLMs). Without a change of course, the current system, under which LLM/AI firms use journalism content without paying for it, will undermine the production of original news and erode the much-needed quality news ecosystem.

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