THE NORDIC EXPERIMENT IN AI COPYRIGHT COMPENSATION

Generative AI has raised difficult questions about how copyright systems should respond when creative works are used for AI training. This article examines two recent developments in Northern Europe that bring compensation into that debate. In Norway, Kopinor and the National Library of Norway have developed a collective licensing arrangement for the use of newspaper content in AI training. In Denmark, the collective management organization Koda has turned to litigation against the AI music platform Suno, seeking transparency and remuneration for rights holders. Although the two cases rely on different legal mechanisms, they raise a common question about how the value generated through AI training should be shared. Comparing these developments with the U.S. experience, this article considers whether compensation may become a more important part of AI copyright governance.