The Centre has proposed a sweeping new framework for AI training, recommending a mandatory blanket licence that requires all AI companies to pay royalties for using copyrighted work, to creators like musicians, news publishers, and authors. Royalty rates would be fixed by a government-appointed committee and collected through a single collective body formed by copyright holders.

The paper rejects voluntary licensing – deals between AI developers and individual companies, such as OpenAI’s content licensing deal with the Associated Press – saying it would lead to high transaction costs, long negotiations and unequal bargaining power that disadvantage small creators and startups, and would fail to offer broad, dependable access to training data.

These recommendations have been made in a pap

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