Had time to think on testifying at the Senate’s yesterday. These words are for our amazing global artistic community and the world beyond:

Several governments worldwide are negotiating new #AI laws, which will regulate how it interacts with the music industry. Tickets available for the next ICMP #DigitalSeries with insight on Europe, USA & China. 🎟️ bit.ly/3OxUqUV ICMP NMPA peermusic

Turning a Queen chess piece♟️♟️ The accuracy is rather satisfying 👌🏼

Google and Universal Music negotiate deal over AI ‘deepfakes’ on.ft.com/45n3kKP

A federal judge tossed a fan-fiction writer's $250m copyright infringement lawsuit alleging Amazon Studios and J.R.R. Tolkien's heirs ripped off his sequels to "The Lord of the Rings," finding his books aren't copyright-protected b/c they were unauthorized derivative works.

Did you miss our July webinar on international copyright issues and #AI? Check out our recording of the full webinar on our website and YouTube channel: youtube.com/watch?v=QaUzke… #ICYMI

This is truly too, too perfect.

Speaking at Mondo today— Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing: Hot Topics in Generative AI and the Music Industry from Neural Networks to Fake Drake @ 1pm

Most generative AI providers forbid training new models on their output, while arguing that their own training on copyrighted work is fair use. I'm yet to see a single attempt to justify this inconsistency.

'Training data' isn't the right phrase for what's used to train generative AI models - it dehumanises what is, in reality, human creative output. This isn't data - it's books, artwork, music, and more. Calling it data makes it sound like it's just a low-value, anonymous input to

The Copyright Alliance is thrilled to announce its two newest At-Large Board Members: Shannon Sorensen of NMPA and Dr. Richard James Burgess of @A2IM. Learn more here from our press release! bit.ly/3vz14Dj

It's good news that the UK govt has reaffirmed that there won't be a broad copyright exception for generative AI training. But I'd like to see them go further than this. The report they are responding to specifically recommends they "be clear that licences are required to use

The Indian government has made it clear that generative AI companies must get permission to train on copyrighted work. This is a great move, and one that balances the interests of AI companies and rights holders. They're not saying AI shouldn't be supported - they're just saying

There is a very real danger that the phrase 'publicly available' is used to hide copyright infringement in plain sight. I've seen multiple people use this phrase 'publicly available' to describe training data, and what it often in fact means is just 'available on the internet,

GPT-4: Researchers tested leading #AI models for #copyright infringement Hayden Field “Perhaps what was surprising is that we found that OpenAI’s GPT-4... produced copyrighted content on 44% of prompts that we constructed.” ~ Rebecca Qian buff.ly/3TgIwjC #generativeAI

As Congress crafts AI policy, It's vital that small businesses have a seat at the table. Today, House Committee on Small Business Democrats released a report outlining the threats GenAI poses to content creators and policies to protect small firms from the negative impacts of AI. democrats-smallbusiness.house.gov/news/documents…

Love to see that the high school policy debate topic for next year is IP rights in the U.S. My junior year, our debate topic was compulsory vaccination-- at the time it felt pretty abstract! nfhs.org/articles/nfhs-…

musicbusinessworldwide.com/nmpa-accuses-s… ICMP, the global voice of music publishing, stands square in support of the NMPA on this. It is unacceptable for Spotify to seek to backtrack or dilute the increases to songwriters' pay which were so hard won by NMPA & which were agreed in in

I will pay a producer $1000 to teach these contestants how to conjugate a first person plural possessive noun. “Jen and I’s,” for example, is never right. #bacheloretteabc #thebachelorette

Another important draft law in America to tackle copyright infringement by AI companies. musicbusinessworldwide.com/music-industry… "We strongly support the bill which prioritizes creators who continue to be exploited by unjust AI practices.” David Israelite President & CEO of 🇺🇸 group