The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has revealed that the South Korean government is unlikely to adopt a text-and-data-mining, or TDM, exemption to defuse conflicts between AI developers and copyright holders, and will instead move to modify the existing copyright system based on a fair-use principle. After reviewing precedents in countries that adopted TDM-exemption provisions, a working group found that those measures had not been effective in preventing disputes and did not provide sufficient protections for creators. As a result, the group plans to develop ways to improve interpretations and related systems under the existing fair-use provisions. The ministry aims to publish guidelines on the fair use of creative works in training AI systems by the end of 2025.
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