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YouTube's "Erase Song" feature lets users precisely zap copyrighted tunes from their clips while keeping all the other audio intact. YouTube chief Neal Mohan hyped the new tool on X/Twitter, saying it will help easily remove copyright-claimed music from videos while preserving everything else. Read Entire Article
OpenAI filed a copyright complaint to Reddit over the unauthorized use of the company's copyrighted logo by the r/ChatGPT subreddit. Read Entire Article
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The two new cases – Raw Story and AlterNet have the same owner, which filed a single suit – mirror the New York Times' arguments against OpenAI: that the company used copyrighted material to train ChatGPT. Read Entire Article
One of the groups at the forefront of this fight is the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), which has filed an amicus brief in the US Supreme Court providing an overview of the copyright trolling problem. Read Entire Article The filing is part of the Warner Chappell Music v. Nealy case, which does not.
It's no secret that LLMs use swaths of information from the internet as training data, but the NYT claims in its copyright infringement lawsuit that its content has been given "particular emphasis." Read Entire Article The suit, filed in Manhattan federal court, claims that the companies "seek to free-ride on the Times's massive.
The publishers argue that OpenAI's practices amount to copyright infringement on a massive scale, potentially threatening the future of journalism. Read Entire Article The case has merged lawsuits from three publishers: The New York Times, The New York Daily News, and the Center for Investigative Reporting.
Read Entire Article , features recordings of empty studios and performance spaces. Organizers say this represents the potential impact on artists' livelihoods, and creativity in general, should the government's plans go ahead.
The Tennesse lawsuit alleges that Twitter "fuels its business with countless infringing copies of musical compositions, violating Publishers' and others' exclusive rights under copyright law." Read Entire Article
Howell upheld the finding by the US Copyright Office that a piece of AI-generated art cannot be copyrighted, writes the Hollywood Reporter. Read Entire Article United States District Court Judge Beryl A. The agency had refused to grant a patent to Stephen Thaler, who wanted an AI-generated image he produced with the Creativity.
Read Entire Article Over 400 actors, musicians, filmmakers, writers, and more signed the letter sent to the White House, including Ben Stiller, Mark Ruffalo, Cate Blanchett, Paul McCartney, and Ron Howard, reports The Wrap.
Meta openly admitted to using the Book3 dataset, a well-known 37GB compilation of 195,000 copyrighted books used by developers to train LLMs. Read Entire Article In January 2024, a group of writers filed a lawsuit in California against Meta for using their works to train various versions of the Llama large language model.
Researchers gathered more than a thousand training examples from the models, which ranged from individual person photographs to film stills, copyrighted news images, and trademarked firm logos, and discovered that the AI reproduced many of them almost identically. Read Entire Article
The US Copyright Office has dealt a significant blow to video game preservation efforts by denying a request for a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) exemption, allowing libraries to provide remote access to preserved video games. The decision, announced last week, marks the fourth time since 2015 that the copyright.
OpenAI recently told members of the House of Lords that it is "impossible" to train large language models (LLMs) without using copyrighted material. Read Entire Article The claim was in response to the UK's Communications and Digital Select Committee, which is looking into the legal issues involving current AI systems.
Read Entire Article Writers and journalists Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson brought the lawsuit, which seeks class action status.
Judge Bibas rejected Ross Intelligence's fair use defense, a key argument used by AI companies in copyright disputes. Read Entire Article The case, filed in 2020, accused Ross Intelligence of reproducing materials from Thomson Reuters' Westlaw legal research database to build a competing AI-powered legal platform.
Stanford law professor Mark Lemley represented Meta in a 2023 copyright case in which the company used a data set containing copyrighted e-books to train its LLMs, something it says should be considered fair use. Read Entire Article
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When they break, and they break often, understanding the error codes and accessing the secret, locked service menu requires calling an expensive ($315 per 15 minutes, Read Entire Article
The New York Times is suing OpenAI and its close collaborator (and investor), Microsoft, for allegedly violating copyright law by training generative AI models on Times’ content.
Things got off to a rocky start after an app called iGBA was pulled from the App Store less than a week after its debut over violating spam and copyright violations. Read Entire Article The next app to try its luck, an emulator known as Delta, did things the right way and quickly.
According to Japanese media, this marks the first arrest in the country for circumventing the portable device's copyright protection. Read Entire Article A 58-year-old man from Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, was arrested for selling modified Nintendo Switch consoles designed to play pirated games.
Generative AI's true value remains uncertain, and controversies over reliability and copyright haven't faded. Read Entire Article Despite the resources tech giants have recently poured into AI PCs, IDC data suggests their spread into the market will take years, and developers are slow to utilize them.
Monday night, Congress approved an over $2 trillion government spending and coronavirus relief package that included a handful of controversial copyright and trademark measures. The news circulated all across the internet; in a poorly headlined Hollywood Reporter article, tweets, and YouTube videos. Copyright is messy.
Read Entire Article The symposium brought together prosecutors, industry representatives, and anti-piracy experts to discuss the latest piracy trends and potential solutions. TorrentFreak reports that when it came to new measures, site blocking was heavily pushed as an effective remedy that the US has been lacking.
At the same time, many generative video tools also highlight questions and challenges around content ownership and copyright. Read Entire Article Some of these have become a key part of larger discussions on the development and evolution of AI-powered tools.
Flash's ability to remove watermarks from licensed work, a practice that is deemed illegal by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Read Entire Article Social media is abuzz with Gemini 2.0 Such images litter stock photography services although in many cases, an identifying logo, text, or pattern is used to discourage unauthorized use.
The NYT sued OpenAI and Microsoft in December for using millions of its articles to train their systems without permission or compensation. The suit states that millions of the Times' copyrighted news pieces, in-depth investigations, opinion features, reviews, how-to guides, and more were used to train the chatbots, which now.
The European Union Intellectual Property Office's most recent biannual report on copyright infringement in the UK and Europe makes for some interesting reading. Read Entire Article Based on data from MUSO, a UK tracking firm, the years-long decline in piracy traffic has reversed since the start of 2021.
The so-called " paper of record " is now encouraging staff to use generative AI tools to write headlines and summarize articles. Along with models from Google, Github, and Amazon, NYT staff will also have access to Echo, a bespoke tool currently in beta that's designed to condense articles into shorter summaries.
In its suit filed in US federal court, Nintendo alleges that Yuzu violates the anti-circumvention and anti-trafficking provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Read Entire Article
Interesting article over at the icommons.org site called CC Licensing Practice Reviewed Alek Tarkowski, ccPoland It mentions an experiment in a dutch town where they removed the traffic signs or the rules. As noted in the article, Once rules are removed, people become considerate. iron cage of copyright???
It alleged that the Yuzu emulator violates the anti-circumvention and anti-trafficking provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), and that it is primarily designed to break the several layers of Switch encryption so users can. Read Entire Article
A group of authors filed a lawsuit against Meta, alleging the unlawful use of copyrighted material in developing its Llama 1 and Llama 2 large language models. Read Entire Article
The Internet Archive was recently found guilty of copyright infringement in a case related to its Controlled Digital Lending (CDL) service, which provides users with free access to a digital library of books. US District Judge John Koeltl decided that the IA infringed the copyright of four publishers when it. Read Entire Article
Bungie launched its lawsuit against cheat seller AimJunkies.com and the alleged creators of the Destiny 2 hack software, Phoenix Digital Group, in 2021, alleging copyright and trademark infringement. Read Entire Article
It also aims to regulate the use of copyrighted material. Read Entire Article The cringeworthy mouthful of a bill looks to outlaw the unethical use of AI-generated content and deepfake technology.
Sony sent a letter to more than 700 companies and organizations to take a stand against copyright abuse in AI training practices. Read Entire Article Sony Music Group is warning corporations dealing with AI, particularly generative AI ventures, that they are not authorized to use music data owned by the label to teach.
Journal articles are often costly to access, and many researchers and writers use services like Sci-Hub to bypass those costs. Publishers are unhappy about their content being distributed for free and argue that the site infringes on their copyright.
Orphan works article in the San Francisco Bay Guardian News. I'll be speaking out more on copyright issues in the coming months. A recent article mentions why Benetech is concerned about orphan works: obscure works are hard to find the copyright owner, and it costs to much to hassle with.
AGCOM's deliberation (680/13/CONS) is the agency's main "rule book" regarding online copyright. Read Entire Article A new law was recently passed by the Italian parliament without a hitch, and the Authority for Communications Guarantees has now approved the rules highlighting its new powers.
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