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Steve Bannon & other US conservatives just called for the government not to make AI training fair use.
“It is absurd to suggest that licensing copyrighted content is a financial hindrance to a $20 trillion industry spending hundreds of billions of dollars per year.”
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July was sizzling hot for the #copyright arena—with the TRAIN Act intro, the EU Code of Practice release, the SJC Crime Subcommittee Hearing on #AI & Copyright, and more! Catch up by reading our new blog, "The Top Ten Noteworthy Copyright Stories for July." copyrightalliance.org/copyri…
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🚨BREAKING: Hawley Exposes Meta for WILLFULLY Breaking Copyright Laws . . .
And then training its AI models to LIE about it
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AI companies are behind the largest intellectual property theft in HISTORY.
We prosecute individuals for piracy, so why hasn't Big Tech faced any consequences?
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And there you have it: Evidence shows that Meta employees KNEW they shouldn’t use pirated material but did so anything 👉
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Hear it firsthand from bestselling author @davidbaldacci on Big Tech's theft of his copyrighted content:
"Every single one of my books was presented to me in . . . three seconds, it really felt like I had been robbed of everything of my entire adult life that I had worked on."
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Powerful testimony from Professor Bhamati Viswanathan, an IP law expert, before the Senate Judiciary Committee today:
"If you know that you can go to a pirate website and steal things, why would you ever pay for anything again?...We need new technologies to flourish fairly."
Keith Kupferschmid retweeted
Rebooting podcasts, and what an honor to start with Profs. Shyam Balganesh and Peter Menell talking about their critiques of the ALI Restatement of #copyright project. illusionofmore.com/ali-resta…
Keith Kupferschmid retweeted
“It doesn’t give you the right to take their work without permission.”
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As @ednewtonrex says, licensing doesn’t imply a single standard…& payments aren’t necessarily small. Some creators may demand % of company value, not revenue. I sure would given that revenue is shaky.
“Just because a payment is small doesn’t mean a creator doesn’t want it,” @fairlytrained CEO @ednewtonrex tells #BrainstormAI of AI copyright issues.
“It doesn’t give you the right to take their work without permission.” trib.al/zkkNqHh
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.@RecordingAcad Chief Advocacy & Public Policy Officer, @ToddDupler, sits down with NMPA President David Israelite to break down the rates digital music platforms pay songwriters.
📲 Watch the full conversation: youtube.com/live/FU8yF_PYTNg
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“IA asks this Court to bless the large scale copying & distribution of copyrighted books without permission from or payment to the Publishers or authors…This may be what IA & its amici prefer, but it is not an approach that the Copyright Act permits.”
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Keith Kupferschmid retweeted
Many in the AI world underestimate the backlash against AI. It is serious & growing.
AI developers need to understand the strength of feeling & really engage with people on this.
A few examples:
1. A London cinema dropped AI-written film after backlash.
"AI is a master of remixing and recombining existing human creations. It can analyze vast datasets ...identifying patterns and trends that it can then use to generate new works. However, these creations... are ultimately derivative." ipwatchdog.com/2024/07/17/fi…
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Transformativeness under © law doesn’t mean what AI companies think it means, nor is it the be-all & end-all of fair use. Even Judge Leval, father of “transformativeness,” argues that the likely impact on the original creator is the most important factor.
Generative AI companies call their use of copyrighted work to train models 'transformative' because they hope this gets them off the hook legally. It doesn't.
Two important things to remember about 'transformative' use of copyrighted work, outlined here by Jane C. Ginsburg:
1. Simply transforming something doesn't make it 'transformative' in this context. Transformativeness is not just a measure of distance in e.g. pixel space; it includes the *purpose* of the use.
2. Even if a use *is* judged to be transformative (see 1), transformativeness is not the only factor in fair use decisions.
If you hear people describing their use of copyrighted work for AI training as 'transformative', please bear this in mind: the output being aesthetically different to the input does not necessarily make the use 'transformative' in the eyes of the law, and there is lots besides transformativeness that is important.
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Keith Kupferschmid retweeted
Generative AI companies call their use of copyrighted work to train models 'transformative' because they hope this gets them off the hook legally. It doesn't.
Two important things to remember about 'transformative' use of copyrighted work, outlined here by Jane C. Ginsburg:
1. Simply transforming something doesn't make it 'transformative' in this context. Transformativeness is not just a measure of distance in e.g. pixel space; it includes the *purpose* of the use.
2. Even if a use *is* judged to be transformative (see 1), transformativeness is not the only factor in fair use decisions.
If you hear people describing their use of copyrighted work for AI training as 'transformative', please bear this in mind: the output being aesthetically different to the input does not necessarily make the use 'transformative' in the eyes of the law, and there is lots besides transformativeness that is important.
scholarship.law.columbia.edu…
