My Blanket and Me: Blanket Licensing for Generative AI

In parallel with the many lawsuits that copyright owners have filed against AI technology providers, various activities are taking place to establish voluntary blanket licenses to large bodies of content, with the goal of making it as easy as possible for AI companies to obtain licenses for the content they are using to train their models. Some of these efforts are run by rightsholder trade groups, while others are startups building marketplaces for licensable content. On this panel, we’ll learn about some of each as well as their litigative and legislative backgrounds.