#OpenAI restricts #ChatGPT use for #ghiblistyle #images due to #copyright concerns, ethical issues, and misuse risks in #AI art creation.
https://www.hitnewslatest.com/2025/03/openai-restricts-chatgpt-use-due-to.html
#OpenAI restricts #ChatGPT use for #ghiblistyle #images due to #copyright concerns, ethical issues, and misuse risks in #AI art creation.
https://www.hitnewslatest.com/2025/03/openai-restricts-chatgpt-use-due-to.html
Dua Lipa beats lawsuit claiming she copied the song Levitating from a 70s disco song
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-28/dua-lipa-law-suit-levitating-/105107390
#copyright #music #litigation
"A musical style, defined by plaintiffs as 'pop with a disco feel,' and a musical function, defined by plaintiffs to include 'entertainment and dancing'," cannot possibly be protectable," Justice Failla wrote.
To hold otherwise, she said, would "completely foreclose the further development of music in that genre or for that purpose."
Anthropic Wins First Round In Lawsuit From Music Publishers Over Song Lyrics https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/anthropic-wins-first-round-lawsuit-music-publishers-song-lyrics-1236173148/ #AI #music #copyright
Save these dates!
The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) will host a free virtual webinar on Intellectual Property and AI on April 23-24, 2025.
For more details and to register:
https://mailchi.mp/wipo/wipo-conversation-11-ai-ip-the-future-of-copyright-infrastructure-join-us
From: blenderdumbass . org
A large majority of people confuse privacy with data protection. And lately I'm noticing an uproar of ideologies that claim to be pro-freedom in one way or another, but which threaten freedom as a whole. I think there is a certain copyright mentality to them. Certain misunderstanding of ownership which makes fighting for freed...
Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/the_copyright_mentality
This is worth watching/tracking.
New York Times copyright lawsuit against OpenAI moves forward. Evidence gathering and depositions are next. No trial date has been set.
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/26/nx-s1-5288157/new-york-times-openai-copyright-case-goes-forward #NYT #NewYorkTimes #copyright #OpenAI #AI #ChatGPT #lawsuit
Judge rejects bid to block Anthropic from using song lyrics for AI training
https://www.techspot.com/news/107301-judge-rejects-bid-block-anthropic-using-song-lyrics.html
"The judge added that the publishers failed to show that Anthropic's actions caused them "irreparable harm," a requirement for the injunction."
Judge rejects bid to block Anthropic from using song lyrics for AI training
The music publishers say they still intend to pursue damages
https://www.techspot.com/news/107301-judge-rejects-bid-block-anthropic-using-song-lyrics.html
OpenAI's Viral #StudioGhibli Moment Highlights #AI #Copyright Concerns - Slashdot
#openai #ai #training
"GPT-4o is partly (aside from some licensed content) a product of a massive scrape of the Internet without regard to copyright or consent from artists ... GPT-4o's image generation model (and the technology behind it, once open source) feels like it further erodes trust in remotely produced media ... Everyone needs media literacy skills ..." https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/openais-new-ai-image-generator-is-potent-and-bound-to-provoke/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social via @arstechnica
“…my upcoming essay collection won’t be published until July 1, and yet somehow Meta has already accessed it to train its AI. … How in the hell did LibGen, and therefore Meta (and perhaps also OpenAI) get their hands on not yet published work?” #books #publishing. #ai #copyright #IPTheft
https://lithub.com/how-is-meta-getting-its-hands-on-advance-digital-galleys-to-train-its-ai/
« Le jour où le piratage a changé. »
> Ça ne date certainement pas d’aujourd’hui. C'était même il y a déjà un moment, mais je voulais qu’il soit écrit sur mon blog ce rappel qu’autrefois, il y a longtemps, le piratage était, ben, du vol.
>
> Maintenant tout a changé.
https://remysharp.com/2025/03/22/the-day-piracy-changed (en anglais)
I HEREBY SHEW PROOF THAT I CAN PLAY "EASY MUSIC" AND SING N'AT, AND SIMULTANEOUSLY ANNOUNCE, NAY, DEMONSTRATE WHAT I'VE BEEN DOING TO THIS HYMN FOR, HEH, QUITE SOME TIME NOW! WHO KNOWS HOW LONG ITLL TAKE TO FINE TUNE!? TEN YEARS!? ELEVEN!?
MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!
https://youtu.be/5hxgi8hnRBk
AI copyright cases remain all over the place. This should highlight the need for a political solution that compensates artists instead of relying on the legal system to solve the problem.
#AI #copyright
https://www.reuters.com/legal/anthropic-wins-early-round-music-publishers-ai-copyright-case-2025-03-26/
Judge allows ‘New York Times’ #copyright case against OpenAI to go forward
Great.
Now what about:
LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train #AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/
Probably TMI but here's a draft flowchart of what goes through my brain when I'm considering whether to boost an image. Not included but of course important: (1) Is image made by a human? (2) Is there something in the body of the text that's mildly interesting? (3) Is account an actual person active on the platform? (4) Are number of hashtags in Goldilocks zone? #boosts #AltText #copyright #photography #accessibility #boosting #CreativeCommons
Meta Reuploaded 30% of Pirated Books It Downloaded for AI Training, Participating in Digital Piracy
#AI #Meta #AITraining #MetaAI #Piracy #Copyright #GenAI #LLama #FairUse #Libgen
A US court has confirmed that #copyright cannot be registered to an #AI.
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/human-authorship-required-to-register-copyright-d-c-cir-rules
TorrentFreak: Meta’s BitTorrent Uploads of ‘Pirate Library’ Data Equaled 30% of Downloads, Expert Says. “A lawsuit filed by several authors against Meta centers on Meta’s alleged use of pirated books for AI training data and the technical details of BitTorrent which was used to obtain them. Yesterday, Meta filed a motion for summary judgment, while countering the authors’ request to […]