"With the advent of generative artificial intelligence (AI), the record, film, and content industries are under threat. The most important thing is intellectual property (IP) protection. When an AI model trains on copyrighted material, we need mechanisms to ensure that the process and outputs do not infringe on others' rights."
At the 2025 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit held on the 29th at Hwarang Hall of the Gyeongju Arts Center, Yangbin Wang, CEO of Vobile, took the stage as a speaker for the 14th session, titled "Next-generation AI roadmap for sustainable innovation," and made these remarks. Vobile operates a copyright-protection software platform in Silicon Valley.
Wang said, "Generative AI technology is bringing major changes to the global entertainment industry, and corporations are creating new business models through it," adding, "OpenAI's 'Sora' surpassed 1 million downloads in just a few days after its release, and Google's Veo has secured a large number of users."
Wang said, "Sora showed remarkable technology when it was first released, and now it even creates 4K studio-quality video." He continued, "This kind of technology offers tremendous opportunities for independent creators," and explained, "In the past, making a film was a highly privileged endeavor requiring massive budgets and infrastructure, but now, thanks to Generative AI, anyone can become a creator."
Wang stressed that creators' copyrights must be protected in this process. "The key is IP protection," he said, adding, "Technological progress must be achieved in a balance with responsible and sustainable content protection." He went on, "For new AI services like Sora or Google Veo, how they use copyrighted materials in training, and ensuring that generated outputs do not infringe on a particular individual's image or voice, are both critically important."
"We are entering a new domain, and this is a process of making rules from scratch," he said. He added, "If you think back to the early days of YouTube, there was a lot of debate about copyright then as well," and noted, "But today a structure exists in which 55% of advertising revenue goes to rights holders, and I expect the AI era to develop in this direction too."