Rebooting podcasts, and what an honor to start with Profs. Shyam Balganesh and Peter Menell talking about their critiques of the ALI Restatement of #copyright project. illusionofmore.com/ali-restatemen…

Folks defending the authorized capture and use of creative works to train AI are like foxes campaigning for free range chickens.

Generative AI companies call their use of copyrighted work to train models 'transformative' because they hope this gets them off the hook legally. It doesn't. Two important things to remember about 'transformative' use of copyrighted work, outlined here by Jane C. Ginsburg: 1.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Transformativeness under © law doesn’t mean what AI companies think it means, nor is it the be-all & end-all of fair use. Even Judge Leval, father of “transformativeness,” argues that the likely impact on the original creator is the most important factor.

Many in the AI world underestimate the backlash against AI. It is serious & growing. AI developers need to understand the strength of feeling & really engage with people on this. A few examples: 1. A London cinema dropped AI-written film after backlash.

"AI is a master of remixing and recombining existing human creations. It can analyze vast datasets ...identifying patterns and trends that it can then use to generate new works. However, these creations... are ultimately derivative." ipwatchdog.com/2024/07/17/fin…

Grandal dropped a strike 3 to Siani. I’ve never seen a Pirates player make as many plays that have directly led to us losing as this piece of shit. He should’ve been cut months ago

“IA asks this Court to bless the large scale copying & distribution of copyrighted books without permission from or payment to the Publishers or authors…This may be what IA & its amici prefer, but it is not an approach that the Copyright Act permits.” 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 And see…

.GRAMMYS Chief Advocacy & Public Policy Officer, Todd Dupler, sits down with NMPA President David Israelite to break down the rates digital music platforms pay songwriters. 📲 Watch the full conversation: youtube.com/live/FU8yF_PYT…

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“It doesn’t give you the right to take their work without permission.” 🙏🏽 As Ed Newton-Rex says, licensing doesn’t imply a single standard…& payments aren’t necessarily small. Some creators may demand % of company value, not revenue. I sure would given that revenue is shaky.

🚨BREAKING: Hawley Exposes Meta for WILLFULLY Breaking Copyright Laws . . . And then training its AI models to LIE about it

AI companies are behind the largest intellectual property theft in HISTORY. We prosecute individuals for piracy, so why hasn't Big Tech faced any consequences?

And there you have it: Evidence shows that Meta employees KNEW they shouldn’t use pirated material but did so anything 👉

Hear it firsthand from bestselling author David Baldacci on Big Tech's theft of his copyrighted content: "Every single one of my books was presented to me in . . . three seconds, it really felt like I had been robbed of everything of my entire adult life that I had worked on."

Powerful testimony from Professor Bhamati Viswanathan, an IP law expert, before the Senate Judiciary Committee today: "If you know that you can go to a pirate website and steal things, why would you ever pay for anything again?...We need new technologies to flourish fairly."

July was sizzling hot for the #copyright arena—with the TRAIN Act intro, the EU Code of Practice release, the SJC Crime Subcommittee Hearing on #AI & Copyright, and more! Catch up by reading our new blog, "The Top Ten Noteworthy Copyright Stories for July."

Steve Bannon & other US conservatives just called for the government not to make AI training fair use. “It is absurd to suggest that licensing copyrighted content is a financial hindrance to a $20 trillion industry spending hundreds of billions of dollars per year.”

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