Analytics Vidhya

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The allegations suggest that Meta utilized copyrighted books, despite warnings from its legal team, to train its artificial intelligence models, sparking a contentious battle between […] The post Meta Used Copyrighted Books for Training Its LLaMA Model, Authors File Lawsuit appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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JULY 25, 2023

Prominent authors, including literary giants like Margaret Atwood, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and Philip Pullman, have united to demand that artificial intelligence (AI) companies respect their rights and seek permission before utilizing their copyrighted material.

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Dataconomy

JANUARY 8, 2024

The contentious topic of AI copyright lawsuits is gaining traction, with many advocating that it’s high time AI enterprises compensated for the vast amounts of freely sourced data that have bolstered their generative systems. Notably, GPT-3’s training encompassed a plethora of sources, including Wikipedia and Reddit.

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Hacker News

MARCH 14, 2024

For whom the bell tolls; it tolls for copyright trolls. The post New York Disbars Infamous Copyright Troll appeared first on Above the Law.

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Data Science Dojo

AUGUST 22, 2023

has ignited a debate: Can a work of art created solely by artificial intelligence be eligible for copyright protection under US law ? This verdict stemmed from the rejection by the Copyright Office of an application filed by computer scientist Stephen Thaler, on behalf of his AI system known as DABUS.

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Hacker News

MARCH 25, 2024

Publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, John Wiley, and Penguin Random House filed a lawsuit, equating IA’s controlled digital lending (CDL) operation to copyright infringement. Earlier this year a New York federal court concluded that the library is indeed liable for copyright infringement.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Copyright Office has ruled that illustrations in a new comic book that were created with the AI program Midjourney are not protected by copyright law, according to a letter issued by the Copyright Office.

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JANUARY 7, 2024

Disney has retracted a copyright claim it made on a YouTube video, publicly acknowledging —however tacitly — that 'Steamboat Willie' is a public domain work.

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Dataconomy

MARCH 4, 2024

OpenAI, the creator of the popular ChatGPT chatbot, is facing a growing number of lawsuits from news organizations alleging copyright infringement. Unlike print publications able to register copyrights in bulk, digital publications often lack this protection. They argue that this behavior violates its terms of use.

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Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

With customers ask whether they can use Microsoft’s Copilot services without worrying about copyright claims, we are providing a straightforward answer: yes, you can, and if you are challenged on copyright grounds, we will assume responsibility for the potential legal risks involved.

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JANUARY 5, 2024

A YouTuber's upload of Steamboat Willie has been hit with a copyright strike from Disney, even though the short film has entered the public domain.

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JUNE 4, 2023

… Continue reading Do we need copyright? Animals, such as cats, can own a piece of food, or a territory, but only as long as they are able to personally maintain a credible threat of violence. And animals can only defend concrete, physical properties, such as an area, a dead bird or a tree.

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DECEMBER 4, 2023

There’s been this weird idea lately, even among people who used to recognize that copyright only empowers the largest gatekeepers, that in the AI world we have to magically flip the script on copyright and use it as a tool to get AI companies to pay for the material they train on. But, as we’ve…

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Dataconomy

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

This future is upon us, and it has ignited a legal battle that seeks to balance the scales of artistic expression and copyright protection in an era where machines are birthing masterpieces. The lawsuit has drawn attention to the critical requirement of artists to register their copyrights with the U.S. Copyright Office.

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DECEMBER 27, 2023

The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft, the creators of ChatGPT and other AI platforms, over copyright infringement, claiming the companies …

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Dataconomy

AUGUST 21, 2023

Howell’s ruling has shone a spotlight on the intricacies of AI-generated artwork and its place in the world of copyright. In an age where algorithms and human minds converge to shape our cultural landscape, the conversation around AI and copyright beckons us to reimagine the lines between the artist and the machine.

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JANUARY 9, 2024

"Copyright today covers virtually every sort of human expression" and cannot be avoided.

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Towards AI

JANUARY 12, 2024

As society grapples with this latest leap in synthetic media, we find ourselves at a similar inflection point with copyright law. As copyright law races to catch up to rapidly evolving AI systems, things remain in flux. AI companies may give you ownership of the output, but can the output be copyrighted?

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JANUARY 8, 2024

In the face of a growing number of lawsuits, OpenAI insists that the use of copyrighted content to train LLMs is fair use. Just a couple weeks after …

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

Users of Microsoft's new AI assistant Copilot will have less to worry about when it comes to the legal ramifications of their AI-generated work, according to a new policy that offers broad copyright protections to Microsoft's AI users. "As

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Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Since Sony’s Betamax-format recorders were able to record TV shows, studios including Universal and Disney sought to hold Sony liable for users’ alleged copyright infringements. Time Running Out Issuing copyright notices is core work for many anti-piracy companies. ‘The Say Hey Kid,’ as himself.

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AUGUST 19, 2023

Stop trying to make AI copyrights happen. There has been a debate raging over whether or not work created by generative artificial intelligence can be copyrighted. It is not going to happen. Some judges have ruled no, of course not, that would be absurd; others have argued the opposite. On Friday, …

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AUGUST 18, 2023

A federal judge has ruled that artwork created solely by artificial intelligence cannot be copyrighted because “human authorship is an essential part …

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Hacker News

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Demetrious Polychron ordered to destroy all copies of The Fellowship of the King after claiming Amazon prequel infringed his copyright

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NOVEMBER 16, 2023

By falsely claiming to own the rights to more than 50,000 copyrighted songs, the scammers generated more than $23 million in revenue. In 2022, the first defendant confessed to his part in the copyright swindle by pleading guilty. From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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O'Reilly Media

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Generative AI stretches our current copyright law in unforeseen and uncomfortable ways. In the US, the Copyright Office has issued guidance stating that the output of image-generating AI isn’t copyrightable, unless human creativity has gone into the prompts that generated the output. How do we make sense of this?

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JANUARY 8, 2024

The top large language models inhale vast quantities of published material scraped from every nook of the internet, much of it subject to copyright, and the rights-holders aren’t all … The future of generative AI could well be shaped by its relationship to the data that its models are trained on.

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Mlearning.ai

AUGUST 22, 2023

Step-by-step instructions on how to secure your copyright Continue reading on MLearning.ai »

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Flipboard

DECEMBER 1, 2023

From the that's-not-how-any-of-this-works dept The post Elon Says Copyright/AI Lawsuits Don’t Matter Because ‘Digital God’ Will Arrive Before They’re Decided appeared first on Above the Law.

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Dataconomy

JANUARY 23, 2024

Copyright issues often arise when games share similarities in their visual and thematic elements. Copyright laws aim to protect the creative works of developers and prevent others from directly copying or reproducing those works without permission. However, there are exceptions and nuances in copyright law.

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Hacker News

AUGUST 12, 2023

As the Internet Archive continues to deal with an adverse ruling in a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by the world’s largest publishing companies, late Friday some of the world’s largest record labels launched similar legal action in the United States. named as defendants. .”

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AUGUST 24, 2023

Since AI-generated works can't be copyrighted, media companies and creatives will need to wait on guidance for how much human authorship is needed.

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Hacker News

JULY 5, 2023

The copyright warning notice prescribed by the US Copyright Office misleads library patrons about their fair use rights, and must change.

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AUGUST 21, 2023

A federal judge has ruled that images generated with artificial intelligence (AI) cannot be copyrighted while contrasting them with …

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JANUARY 23, 2023

Artists are furious that their work has been used as fodder for AI tools, and copyright lawsuits are mounting as a result. We discuss AI’s intellectual property woes with Jelly head of artist management Nicki Field and illustrator Christoph Niemann

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JULY 10, 2023

US comedian and two other authors say artificial intelligence models used their work without permission The US comedian and author Sarah Silverman is suing the ChatGPT developer OpenAI and Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta for copyright infringement over claims that their artificial intelligence models were …

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JULY 9, 2023

Comedian and author Sarah Silverman, as well as authors Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey — are suing OpenAI and Meta each in a US District Court over dual claims of copyright infringement. The lawsuits allege the companies trained their AI models on their works without their consent. The suits …

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