Our Position Paper
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We are pleased that our submission to the IAB Workshop on AI-CONTROL (aicontrolws), which will take place in Washington in September 2024, has been accepted. Below, you can download the rendered version as PDF-document.
IAB Workshop on AI-CONTROL: Workshop Dates: 19-20 September 2024
TDM·AI – Making Unit-Based Opt-out Declarations to Providers of Generative AI
Sebastian Posth (M.A.), Founder and CEO of Liccium.com Sabine Richly, German Qualified Lawyer (LL.M., MBA)
TDM·AI is a protocol for creators and rightsholders to inseparably bind their machine-readable preferences for text and data mining (TDM) to digital media assets, specifically tailored for training models and applications of generative AI. TDM·AI addresses the main problem in controlling AI crawlers, namely the problem of metadata binding, by proposing a reliable method of soft-binding restrictions or permissions to use content for training models of generative AI to content-derived identifiers. The TDM·AI protocol utilises the International Standard Content Code (ISCC), a new ISO standard for the identification of digital media content (ISO 24138:2024) and Creator Credentials, based on W3C recommendation for cryptographically verifiable credentials, to ensure that verifiable and machine-readable declarations include proper attribution of preferences and claims to the legitimate rightsholders. Although the protocol has its origins in the European DSM Directive on Copyright 2019/790, Article 4, it may in many cases also be applicable to content published by rightsholders outside the EU.