Many publishers have grown concerned in recent months that AI developers are using the archive as a kind of back door to the publishers’ content & so they’ve also started to block its access to their material or curtailed its ability to distribute that material.
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Indie artists are constantly finding AI-generated impersonations on their streaming pages, and its only getting worse
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Just two years ago Amodei was using the “fair use” argument to avoid copyright restrictions in a New York Times interview.
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Anthropic’s actions, the brief argues, fail to meet the fair use doctrine in at least two ways: it is not transformative and its unauthorized training interferes with copyright holders who are signing licensing agreements with various tech companies.
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“The AI companies are claiming fair use, but this argument is bogus,. While they claim it’s fair to use the work of creators as training data, they do multimillion-dollar deals with rights holders and publishers like Disney and Condé Nast and Vox and Warner Music.”
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Like a number of other providers of pirated content, the Archive presents itself as a non-profit seeking altruistically to provide open-source knowledge to all & sundry. It is more than happy to provide unauthorized access to OPC (Other People’s Content).
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‘Tech companies believe in intellectual property, but not yours.”
Great piece in The Atlantic pointing out that AI companies spend huge amounts of money simultaneously (i) defending their own IP and (ii) arguing that they can use other people’s for free.
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Schmidt told the students to go ahead and download whatever they need to build an accurate “test” version of their AI product. If nobody uses your product, then it doesn’t matter that you stole all the content.”
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Since most leading AI companies sourced massive of amounts of pirated works from known criminal-level piracy services (and in some cases re-distributed those works), their so-called legal defenses are starting to border on the comically absurd.
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An “age-old” truth in copyright law “is reproduction itself violates the copyright—that’s part of what the right is,” Judge Richard C. Wesley said Wednesday.
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Pirate libraries are increasingly at the center of the copyright battle over AI training. Writers, artists, and movie studios suing AI companies are increasingly including claims over how firms acquired their training data.
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The overwhelming response to the petition shows that there is widespread recognition that the Restatement is flawed and would be harmful if relied upon by courts and practitioners.
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In a complaint filed at a New York federal court last week, they accuse Anna’s Archive of staggering copyright infringement by hosting 63 million books and 95 million papers, most of which are pirated.
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Wixen Music Publishing alleges that Meta wants to “drastically cut payments to human songwriters” and replace them with free AI-generated music.
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“Anna’s Archive is a brazen pirate operation that steals and distributes millions of literary works while outrageously offering access to AI developers in exchange for crypto payments. To fight back, we must use all available tools.”
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As A.I. systems ingest copyrighted works at scale, courts, creators and companies are redefining what protection means.
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“If a third-party promoter can use editorial images for marketing and social media promotion without permission or compensation, the practical value of copyright is significantly diminished.
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The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to take up the issue of whether art generated by artificial intelligence can be copyrighted under U.S. law.
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More than 700 creators have signed a proclamation denouncing unauthorized use of news, movie, recording, photography and other content by AI models as stealing.
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Suno and Udio the pair have strived to make peace with the industry. Suno, now valued at $2.45 billion, last year struck a settlement with Warner, and Udio has signed licensing agreements with Warner, Universal and independent label Merlin.
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Join our No Artists No Art campaign on social media and by speaking up about the importance of protecting working creatives and the value we bring to society, culture, and the economy.
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Reporting highlighted by CNBC notes that some influencers and creatives are turning down AI‑related sponsorships altogether, citing concerns about audience backlash, ethical questions around AI, or fears of being seen as “selling out” to a controversial technology.
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“He is suing Google, alleging that it violated his rights by building a product that replicated his voice without payment or permission, giving users the power to make it say things Greene would never say.”
The company, alongside many of its competitors in the AI space, has been indiscriminately scraping the internet for content, without compensating rightsholders, racking up many copyright infringement lawsuits along the way.
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The Copyright Labeling & Ethical AI Reporting Act would require companies file a notice with the Register of Copyrights that detail the copyrighted works used to train datasets for an AI model. The notice would apply retroactively to models already available.
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The court, in reversing in part a district court’s grant of summary judgment, emphasized that a service provider could not “curate[d] its collection of images for display” and still preserve its safe harbor status
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Send a letter to your Congressional Representatives to continue to encourage them to stand up for creators.
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North Carolina initially agreed in 2013 to stop the copyright violations & pay Allen $15,000 for unauthorized use. Then, in 2015, North Carolina passed “Blackbeard’s Law,” which allowed state agencies to freely use materials related to shipwrecks in their possession.
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