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Case chronology
Associations hold AI and webtoon forum (organiser report)
The Korean Cartoonists Association reports a 24 March forum jointly held with the webtoon creators’ association: a lecture on AI and webtoons and a Stable Diffusion workshop examining creative applications and their advantages and disadvantages.
Korean associations demand safeguards for webtoon training data
A joint statement demands webtoon training-data disclosure, contracts specifying scope, purpose and duration for commercial or intended commercial use, and oversight of unauthorized or pirated data use. Dated 28 November 2023; posted 30 November.
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’ organisation brings consent, refusal, and remuneration for AI training into collective discussion, distinguished from readers’ platform boycotts.
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