South Korea has published a guide presenting criteria for judging fair use under copyright law in relation to generative AI training on copyrighted works. The guide explains four assessment factors, and says commercial purposes or web-crawling methods are not automatically excluded and must be judged comprehensively. The government also plans to bolster policy support, expand public works available for AI training and set up an AI-focused consultation, consulting and dispute-mediation channel.

South Korea published a guide setting out criteria for assessing fair use under copyright law in relation to generative AI training on works, the Ministry of Science and ICT and the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism said on Wednesday. The guide explains four factors used in fair-use assessments and says commercial use or web crawling is not automatically excluded. The government also outlined steps to strengthen policy support on copyright issues and expand use of public works for AI training.