After finding that textbooks are being uploaded to generative AI tools without the necessary permission from the publisher, RettighedsAlliancen publishes a guide on the legal restrictions on the use of chatbots at educational institutions.
There has been an urgent need to raise awareness of the legal restrictions on the use of chatbots, such as ChatGPT, by institutions, teachers and students at Danish educational institutions. Therefore, the Rights Alliance is now publishing a guide that reviews the rules for the correct use of chatbots in educational contexts, based on our experience with protecting copyright material and current legislation.
Need for clarity around rules
With the rise of ChatGPT and other chatbots, new ways in which protected works, including textbooks, can be misused have emerged. When users upload digital copies of textbooks to ChatGPT and other chatbots, the works are processed to enable the chatbot to, among other things, answer questions about the content or generate text that is similar or identical to the uploaded material. This is illegal unless the relevant rights holders have given explicit permission for the work to be uploaded to generative AI tools.
Read more in the guide, which can be downloaded here
In addition to the guide, RettighedsAlliancen has created a one pager where employees at educational institutions can find answers to questions that may arise in connection with the use of textbooks and other copyrighted material in chatbots.
See the questions and answers below:
Webinars for educational institutions
The Rights Alliance hosts webinars for employees at educational institutions where we will go through the guidelines and where there will be an opportunity to ask questions.
Dates for the webinars:
- Tuesday 28/1 at 14.30 – 15: Targeted at educators
- Thursday 30/1 at 9.30 – 10: Targeted at management and administrative staff
- Tuesday 4/2 at 14.30 – 15: Targeted at educators
- Thursday, February 6, 9:30 – 10 am: Aimed at management and administrative staff
The webinar is free and you can register by emailing Ditte.Agerskov@rettighedsalliancen.dk.
The webinar is held via Teams, and you will receive a link the day before the webinar is held.
If you have any questions about the use of textbooks in connection with chatbots, please contact RettighedsAlliancen.
Note: This guide does not cover the rules for training generative AI models.