Hacker News with Generative AI: Copyright

News publishers call Google's AI Mode 'theft' (theverge.com)
The News/Media Alliance says Google ‘just takes content by force and uses it with no return’ to publishers like Condé Nast and Vox Media.
Artificial Intelligence, News Media, Google, Copyright, Business
18 points by cheeaun 2 days ago | 3 comments
Open Source Maintainers Demand Ability to Block Copilot-Generated Issues and PRs (socket.dev)
Open source maintainers are urging GitHub to let them block Copilot from submitting AI-generated issues and pull requests to their repositories.
Open Source, Artificial Intelligence, GitHub, Software Development, Copyright
14 points by gpi 3 days ago | 0 comments
Actors' union complains about Epic Games cloning Darth Vader (theregister.com)
The union representing American actors has complained about Llama Production, which is owned by Epic Games, over the use of generative AI in a new character for Fortnite.
AI, Gaming, Unions, Copyright, Generative AI
6 points by rntn 3 days ago | 0 comments
U.S. ISPs Want Retrospective Immunity in Pirate Site Blocking Bill (torrentfreak.com)
At a recent Senate subcommittee hearing, the Motion Picture Association reiterated the need for a pirate site blocking regime in the United States. Behind the scenes, lawmakers and stakeholders appear to be progressing towards an agreed-upon position. One of the main roadblocks, according to Senator Coons, is that Internet providers are seeking retroactive immunity as part of a 'deal'.
Copyright, Law, Internet, Politics, Media
20 points by diyftw 3 days ago | 4 comments
Italy Fines over 2,200 Pirate IPTV Subscribers in New Crackdown (torrentfreak.com)
Italy has intensified its fight against IPTV piracy by issuing fines direct to subscribers whose details were linked to a criminal investigation.
IPTV, Piracy, Italy, Law Enforcement, Copyright
3 points by gslin 4 days ago | 0 comments
Constitutional Court Urged to End Piracy Blockades Now Hurting Millions (torrentfreak.com)
Cumbersome IP address blocking to fight piracy of LaLiga matches has also punished the innocent; an estimated 2.7 million innocent sites blocked during a single weekend according to recent data. Sounding the alarm over a potential threat to democracy, cybersecurity collective RootedCON has appealed to Spain's Constitutional Court to bring blocking to an end. Meanwhile, letters sent by LaLiga to journalists are being perceived as threats.
Copyright, Law, Spain, Censorship, Internet
8 points by gslin 4 days ago | 1 comments
The U.S. Copyright Office's Draft Report on AI Training Errs on Fair Use (eff.org)
Within the next decade, generative AI could join computers and electricity as one of the most transformational technologies in history, with all of the promise and peril that implies.
Copyright, Artificial Intelligence, Law, Generative AI, Fair Use
11 points by mdp2021 7 days ago | 5 comments
ChatGPT Turned into a Studio Ghibli Machine. How Is That Legal? (theatlantic.com)
A few weeks ago, OpenAI pulled off one of the greatest corporate promotions in recent memory.
Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence, Copyright, Studio Ghibli
10 points by fortran77 9 days ago | 0 comments
Amazon warns it'll terminate your account for screenshotting Prime Video (neowin.net)
If you are an Amazon Prime Video customer, then you may have to think twice before proceeding to take a screenshot. That is because Amazon has allegedly put up a new banner that will now warn users about the repercussions of taking screenshots.
Amazon, Privacy, Streaming Services, Copyright
13 points by bundie 10 days ago | 2 comments
Trump Appointees Blocked from Entering US Copyright Office (wired.com)
Two men claiming to be newly appointed Trump administration officials tried to enter the US Copyright Office in Washington, DC, on Monday, but left before gaining access to the building, sources tell WIRED.
Politics, US Government, Copyright, Security
12 points by kgwgk 10 days ago | 1 comments
Paul McCartney, Elton John and other creatives demand AI comes clean on scraping (theregister.com)
More than 400 of the UK's leading media and arts professionals have written to the prime minister to back an amendment to the Data (Use and Access) Bill, which promises to offer the nation's creative industries transparency over copyrighted works ingested by AI models.
AI, Copyright, Law, Music, UK
66 points by rntn 11 days ago | 103 comments
US Copyright Office Has Thoughts on AI. Big Tech May Not Like It (businessinsider.com)
Big Tech companies train their AI models mostly on the work of other people, like scientists, journalists, filmmakers, or artists.
Copyright, Artificial Intelligence, Big Tech, Law
43 points by walterbell 11 days ago | 12 comments
US Copyright Office: Generative AI Training [pdf] (copyright.gov)
Generative AI, Copyright, Law
61 points by dave1629 12 days ago | 19 comments
"Night of the Living Dead" accidentally became public domain (2019) (screenrant.com)
Copyright, Film, Public Domain, Law
76 points by edavis 17 days ago | 68 comments
Judge said Meta illegally used books to build its AI (wired.com)
Meta’s contentious AI copyright battle is heating up—and the court may be close to a ruling.
Meta, Artificial Intelligence, Copyright, Lawsuits, Technology
406 points by mekpro 18 days ago | 341 comments
Judge on Meta's AI training: "I just don't understand how that can be fair use" (arstechnica.com)
"You have companies using copyright-protected material to create a product that is capable of producing an infinite number of competing products,' Chhabria said. 'You are dramatically changing, you might even say obliterating, the market for that person's work, and you're saying that you don't even have to pay a license to that person.'"
Artificial Intelligence, Law, Copyright, Fair Use
19 points by mikece 21 days ago | 0 comments
Anti-pirating ad music stolen (2012) (abc.net.au)
You wouldn't steal a movie, so why would you put stolen music on an anti-piracy ad? Dr Karl investigates a curious case of copyright theft.
Copyright, Music, Advertising, Irony
7 points by CHB0403085482 27 days ago | 1 comments
"You Wouldn't Steal a Car" But Would You Pirate a Font? (torrentfreak.com)
Twenty years ago, the statement "You Wouldn't Steal a Car" launched one of the most iconic anti-piracy campaigns. Through a memorable commercial, the movie industry forcefully equated digital piracy with physical theft. While the PSA became instantly recognizable, spawning countless parodies, it also attracted its own controversy. New revelations suggest that the campaign's distinctive font may have itself been copied, or dare we say 'stolen'.
Copyright, Piracy, Media, Fonts, Advertising
8 points by gaws 28 days ago | 3 comments
How Meta AI Staff Deemed More Than 7M Books to Have No "Economic Value" (vanityfair.com)
As more than a dozen lawsuits churn ahead, newly unsealed case files reveal the company’s stance: The pirated books Meta used to train its AI, including ones by Beverly Cleary, Jacqueline Woodson, and Andrew Sean Greer, are individually worthless.
Artificial Intelligence, Copyright, Lawsuits, Book Industry, Meta
43 points by cbzbc 36 days ago | 21 comments
Copyright-ignoring AI scraper bots laugh at robots.txt (theregister.com)
The Internet Engineering Task Force has chartered a group it hopes will create a standard that lets content creators tell AI developers whether it’s OK to use their work.
Artificial Intelligence, Copyright, Web Development
6 points by LinuxBender 43 days ago | 2 comments
Site-Blocking Legislation Is Back. It's Still a Terrible Idea (eff.org)
More than a decade ago, Congress tried to pass SOPA and PIPA—two sweeping bills that would have allowed the government and copyright holders to quickly shut down entire websites based on allegations of piracy.
Internet Censorship, Legislation, Copyright
11 points by alwillis 46 days ago | 0 comments
A band has a guest and plays a song the guest wrote. Is it original or cover? (github.com/cryptograss)
A band has a guest and plays a song the guest wrote. Is it original or cover? #255
Music, Copyright, Performance, Collaboration
11 points by jMyles 48 days ago | 12 comments
OpenAI's Motion to Dismiss Copyright Claims Rejected by Judge (arstechnica.com)
OpenAI loses bid to dismiss NYT claim that ChatGPT contributes to users’ infringement.
Copyright, Generative AI, Lawsuits, OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence
79 points by m463 48 days ago | 12 comments
OpenAI's models 'memorized' copyrighted content, new study suggests (techcrunch.com)
A new study appears to lend credence to allegations that OpenAI trained at least some of its AI models on copyrighted content.
Generative AI, Copyright, OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence
8 points by pseudolus 48 days ago | 1 comments
Judge calls out OpenAI's "straw man" argument in New York Times copyright suit (arstechnica.com)
OpenAI loses bid to dismiss NYT claim that ChatGPT contributes to users’ infringement.
Copyright, Artificial Intelligence, Lawsuits, OpenAI
9 points by kwiktrip 48 days ago | 0 comments
OpenAI wants to bend copyright rules. Study suggests it isn't waiting (theregister.com)
Tech textbook tycoon Tim O'Reilly claims OpenAI mined his publishing house's copyright-protected tomes for training data and fed it all into its top-tier GPT-4o model without permission.
Copyright, Generative AI, OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence, Legal Issues
19 points by pseudolus 50 days ago | 7 comments
Researchers suggest OpenAI trained AI models on paywalled O'Reilly books (techcrunch.com)
OpenAI has been accused by many parties of training its AI on copyrighted content sans permission. Now a new paper by an AI watchdog organization makes the serious accusation that the company increasingly relied on non-public books it didn’t license to train more sophisticated AI models.
Generative AI, Copyright, OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence, AI Ethics
6 points by desertmonad 50 days ago | 0 comments
Anna's Archive Scraping: Court Defers Key Questions to State Supreme Court (torrentfreak.com)
The legal battle between library database giant OCLC and shadow library search engine Anna's Archive has hit a snag.
Legal Cases, Copyright, Libraries, Digital Libraries
8 points by hn_acker 52 days ago | 0 comments
Requesting formal removal of all anaconda posts for copyright violation (stackoverflow.com)
Copyright, Software, Lawsuits, Online Communities
23 points by user5994461 54 days ago | 9 comments
Free Output – AI output copyright status checker (freeoutput.org)
Copyright, Artificial Intelligence, Tools
35 points by knewter 55 days ago | 19 comments