AI-Cafe presents: Legal approach to AI Licensing Dynamics

Licensing dynamics play a core role in AI-related markets. Some stakeholders are more and more interested in openly releasing some of the AI features by means of open source and/or creative commons licenses. However, these legal templates were not designed at the time with AI in mind, and therefore it is not clear whether these are well adapted to serve as licensing mechanisms for new artifacts such as machine learning models or datasets. Institutions such as the Open Source Initiative or Creative Commons are currently exploring the brave new world of AI. in the meanwhile, AI communities have reacted and new licenses, such as responsible AI licenses (RAIL) have been drafted and are increasingly used to distribute ML models. In this session, the speakers shall provide a brief overview of main licensing aspects, current AI licensing dynamics and challenges to this regard.