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Case chronology
Korean Cartoonists Association announces discussion on AI training and creators’ rights
The association announced a public discussion at Seoul’s CKL on September 1 covering legal disputes over training without consent, rights to consent and refuse, affirmative-permission mechanisms, and creator remuneration.
Korean Cartoonists Association holds discussion on AI training rights
Post-event image cards recorded a September 1 discussion at the CKL Business Support Center, proposing four tasks: prior permission, rights-information management, remuneration settlement, and links to work identifiers. The cards stated that 90.2% of surveyed members did not know how to check or refuse AI training use of their works.
Research question
A cartoonists’ organization brings consent, refusal, and remuneration for AI training into collective discussion, distinguished from readers’ platform boycotts.
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