I taught Communication Law and when we got to the chapter about Copyright, students often started with little understanding.
In the link, the director of the Duke Center for the Study of the Public Domain, Jennifer Jenkins, explains about works entering the public domain in 2024, inspired by the prototype version of Mickey Mouse becoming Public Domain.
ICYMI: @victoriastrauss post on SFWA comments to the US Copyright office on the matter of granting copyright to works created using artificial intelligence; as Ms Strauss notes, this applies to all writers of any genre.
But do and will AI text generators stop using old texts, let's say digitized #earlymodern print editions, when these prints still feature the contemporary copyright right advise on the title pages?
Like here: "nicht nach zu drucken" (do not to re-print!).
Meta's #Llama 2 license has an unusual clause whereby they withdraw your right to use the model if you allege #Meta has breached your own IP rights by training their stuff on your intellectual property. #copyright#genai#LLama2
"By purporting to restrict an author’s abilities to #reuse their own work, “these [#publishing] agreements essentially turn faculty #authors into #readers…,” the Academic Senate chair concludes. The team that leads negotiations with scholarly #publishers…is now taking up the charge, making author #rights the next frontier in advocating for the UC research community."
The Copyright Office extended the deadline to submit comments on its notice of inquiry on copyright & artificial intelligence. Initial written comments are now due by Monday, October 30, 2023, and reply comments are now due by Wednesday, November 29, 2023.
The #Copyright Office extended the deadline to submit comments on its notice of inquiry on copyright & #ArtificialIntelligence. Initial written comments are now due by Monday, October 30, 2023, and reply comments are now due by Wednesday, November 29, 2023.
The #Copyright Office extended the deadline to submit comments on its notice of inquiry on copyright & #ArtificialIntelligence. Initial written comments are now due by Monday, October 30, 2023, and reply comments are now due by Wednesday, November 29, 2023.
Out of all the great punny restaurants in India, Burger Singh is probably my favorite. I wonder if his moustache looks like a crown.
A few years ago, Delhi had a coffee chain called "Sardarbaksh" with a logo suspiciously similar to a certain Seattle-based coffee empire. They were sued and changed their name to "Sardar-ji Baksh." I think they closed in the Pandemic.
In previous years, I've invited my undergrads to post to Tw*tter during my class sessions, as an alternate way to participate and as a shared (and public) backchannel adding extra digital materials to our conversations.
This year, for obvious reasons, that's impossible, so I'm asking them to do so via Mastodon (which none of my students have used before).
It'll be a little experiement. Let's see whether #SOCccc23 gets any use from my #copyright students.
Tues 9/12 - Burford Makes 37,000%, Microsoft to Defend Copilot Customers in Copyright Suits, Conservatives Want CFPB Gutted by SCOTUS and Column Tuesday on Low-income Energy Credits
#BurfordCapital making 37,000% on its legal claim investment, #Microsoft promises to defend customers from some #AI#copyright suits, conservatives hope the #CFPB gets gutted by #SCOTUS and Column Tuesday on low income energy tax credit bonuses.
For the interested, I have once again updated my #openaccess journal text repo to include a #copyright statement for Jurnal Nasional Teknik Elektro dan Teknologi Informasi, which we helped today.
This repo has (copyright/oa) notices, guidelines, and other text we've written for journals. I highly recommend it for non-English journals that struggle with legible notices. The text here will help and if you need some guidance, just @ me. 😊
Mon 8/21 - No Copyright for AI Art, Federal Judge Rejects Settlement for Tesla Roofs, AMC Shareholder Drops Suit, California DMV Investigating GM Cruise
AI generated art denied copyright protection, a federal judge rejects class settlement for Tesla roofs, AMC investor drops lawsuit and California DMV worried about GM Cruise autonomous cars.
tl;dr Books, most likely generated by an LLM, were being sold on Amazon under Jane Friedman's name. The same books were added to her Goodreads profile. Amazon initially refused to remove the books. If it's happening to her, it's definitely happening to other authors.
Does anyone happen to know how #copyright claims or #DMCA processes are handled with #PeerTube? I'd imagine that each instance must have their own policies, based on the locale they're hosted in, but curious to know if there's any standard in place for this.
I wonder if the whole #AI thing will finally convince artists that modern #copyright regime was never meant to protect them.
It was meant to protect the middlemen. The Amazons, the Spotifies, the Sonys, the Disneys. The film studios, the publishing houses.
Now the middlemen figured out they own basically all of art, and that they can just train a computer on that, to replace artists with a piece of software.
And then stop paying artists even the pittance they were being paid so far.
I hope this becomes a wake-up call to all #artists, to all creative people out there — a wake-up call not just about #AI and automatically generated content, but also, and more importantly, about how urgently we need solid #copyright reform.
We had been needing it for decades, in fact.
#Art is not supposed to be hoarded by Disneys or Sonys, not supposed to be locked in corporate vaults. Art is more than just means of "maximizaing shareholder value".
Certainly not a fan (more like lesser of evils) regarding Meta and Microsoft, but I would like them to take legal action against Musk's new X.
Since high school in the 1980s I have been fan of the Los Angeles based punk band "X" and it would be some kind of wonderful if they could find a way to sue Musk and X the corporation also ;-)
The enforcement of copyright law is really simple.
If you were a kid who used Napster in the early 2000s to download the latest album by The Offspring or Destiny's Child, because you couldn't afford the CD, then you need to go to court! And potentially face criminal sanctions or punitive damages to the RIAA for each song you download, because you're an evil pirate! You wouldn't steal a car! Creators must be paid!
If you created educational videos on YouTube in the 2010s, and featured a video or audio clip, then even if it's fair use, and even if it's used to make a legitimate point, you're getting demonetised. That's assuming your videos don't disappear or get shadow banned or your account isn't shut entirely. Oh, and good luck finding your way through YouTube's convoluted DMCA process! All creators are equal in deserving pay, but some are more equal than others!
And if you're a corporation with a market capitalisation of US$1.5 trillion (Google/Alphabet) or US$2.3 billion (Microsoft), then you can freely use everyone's intellectual property to train your generative AI bots. Suddenly creators don't deserve to be paid a cent.
Apparently, an individual downloading a single file is like stealing a car. But a trillion-dollar corporation stealing every car is just good business.