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AI boosters often claim licensing training data shouldn't be required because each creator would only get pennies. But this makes no sense. All they're really saying is that they've set the prices of AI products wrong. If you follow their logic, it goes: 1. We decided to charge

That rare actual LOL in politics. My God.

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It’s the height of hypocrisy to argue that training on copyrighted work without permission should be legal but that training on your model outputs should not

It was never fair use by the way. Not because this bully declared it so.

Amazon’s controversial new partnership with Suno allows millions of users create AI-generated songs with just a voice prompt. But here’s the problem: Suno has admitted to training its models on copyrighted material without authorization and is currently facing multiple lawsuits

🚨 BREAKING: Hundreds of Hollywood creatives & celebrities wrote a response to Trump's AI Action Plan, demanding that copyright law be respected. Read their letter (my highlights):

This may be hard to hear, but we are losing the AI copyright battle. Not because the law doesn’t favor creators - it clearly does. But because governments are seriously considering changing the law. Despite the many, many protests from creators, we are losing. We are losing

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People who don’t benefit from copyright, and who don’t speak to anyone who does, like to write papers about ‘rethinking copyright in the age of AI’. Copyright doesn’t need rethinking, it needs defending - from the tech interests that fund the think tanks that write these papers.

PREACH

Maybe it was just the lamest publicity stunt of all time.

There's a lot of ongoing work to do to make sure that creators and the public benefit from copyright, since that's the point of copyright law, but the idea that only big corporations benefit from copyright now is a myth that mostly helps big corporations.

The Copyright Office's new report is balanced, pragmatic, and legally sound. While careful to avoid wading into currently pending legal disputes which are fact specific, it supports creators' position than AI training isn't automatically fair use, and that licensing is necessary.

This should be such a simple and straightforward request to comply with, but it would potentially diminish Soundcloud's perceived value to private equity buyers. There's a problem with private equity driving incentives away from trust and sustainability toward extraction.

I think there is a CD revolution about to happen. Look into SACD formats. Each hybrid SACD plays on a regular CD player, but with a SACD digital-to-audio converter, you can get a 32-bit 192k audio source. By far a superior record of an audio recording. They’re huge in Japan.

Modern-day musicians face a host of crazymaking challenges: poverty-level streaming royalties, AI ghost artists, corporate consolidation of ticketing/touring. Franz Nicolay writes on the efforts past and present to organize the industry. thebaffler.com/latest/workers…

Surely other artists signed to Hallwood immediately request to be released from their record deals? Suno trains on musicians’ work without permission. Record labels should not be signing people who “design” music on Suno. hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-new…