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Don’t let Big AI fool you: Piracy isn’t a business model
Sam Altman, the OpenAI CEO, is basically saying that he can’t make his product unless he steals from others.
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Copyright Remains A Complete Mess: A Tale In Two Stories
Here are two separate stories regarding the mess that is modern copyright law, that is now mostly “mediated” by companies that half-ass randomly deal with things and sometimes do not. While this is…
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Piracy Is Surging Again Because Streaming Execs Ignored The Lessons Of The Past
Back in 2019 we noted how the streaming sector risked driving consumers back to piracy if they didn’t heed the lessons of the past. We explored how the rush to raise rates, nickel-and-dime us…
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Thousands of U.S. copyrighted works from 1928 are entering the public domain
D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, Virginia Woolf's Orlando and W.E.B. Du Bois' Dark Princess are among the works entering the public domain on Jan. 1, 2024.
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The Copia Institute Tells The Copyright Office Again That Copyright Law Has No Business Obstructing AI Training
A little over a month ago we told the Copyright Office in a comment that there was no role for copyright law to play when it comes to training AI systems. In fact, on the whole there’s little for c…
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Plagiarism and You(Tube)
A long watch, but fascinating. Another side of the enshittification of youtube that is happening right now.
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Spotify's new royalty payment update hurts indie musicians even more than before
Every sub-1,000 stream will still generate revenue for the company — but now, that revenue will not be shared.
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Publishing A Book Means No Longer Having Control Over How Others Feel About It, Or How They’re Inspired By It. And That Includes AI.
There’s no way to write this article without some people yelling angrily at me, so I’m just going to highlight that point up front: many, many people are going to disagree with this article, and I’…
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Pluralistic: Apple screwed us on right to repair (again)
When people can repair their devices, they don't buy new ones. When people don't buy new devices, Apple doesn't sell them new devices.
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Right to repair’s unlikely new adversary: Scientologists
"A totally unreasonable proposal."
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AI-generated art cannot be copyrighted, rules a US Federal Judge
“Human authorship is a bedrock requirement of copyright.”
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Open source licenses need to evolve to deal with AI
Time to get with the program... before artificial intelligence does
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Who owns the code? If ChatGPT's AI helps write your app, does it still belong to you?
It's complicated. So we reached out to legal experts for some definitive answers.
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Twitter Hit With $250 Million Copyright-Infringement Lawsuit From Music Publishers
The National Music Publishers Assn., acting on behalf of 17 major music publishers, is filing a federal copyright infringement lawsuit against Twitter for its failure to license and pay
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Hugely Profitable And Consolidated Streaming Platforms Suddenly Too Cheap To Pay Residuals And Writers, Or Keep Niche Shows Online
We’ve noted repeatedly that as the streaming sector grows and consolidates, it’s revealing many of the same problems we saw inherent in traditional, shitty, cable TV. As in the need to …
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Book Publishers Are Trying to Destroy Public E-Book Access in Order to Increase Profits
A recent ruling against the Internet Archive for copyright infringement threatens a treasured and critical public institution: our libraries.
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US Supreme Court rules Andy Warhol image violated copyright
The court finds the late artist's painting of Prince infringed on a photographer's copyright.
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AI-generated images from text can't be copyrighted, US government rules
Any images that are produced by giving a text prompt to current generative AI models, such as Midjourney or Stable Diffusion, cannot be copyrighted in the US. That's according to the US Copyright Office (USCO), which has equated such prompts to a buyer giving directions to a commissioned artist. "They identify what the prompter wishes to have depicted, but the machine determines how those instructions are implemented in its output," the USCO wrote in new guidance it published to the Federal Register.
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Authors risk losing copyright if AI content is not disclosed, US guidance says
Copyright Office will field public input during listening sessions this spring.
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Publishers Lobbied To ‘Axe The Reading Tax’ On Ebooks, Then Paid It To Themselves
One of the (many) villains in “Walled Culture” the book (free ebook versions) is the publishing industry, specifically in the context of the transition from analogue books to ebooks. Wh…
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