Hacker News with Generative AI: Copyright

Documind ripped our open source tool and swapped the license (ycombinator.com)
Saw a ShowHN post [0] today about an open source document extractor tool. I thought the workflow sounded pretty similar to our library, and only to realize it's a direct rip of Zerox [1].
Open Source, Software, Licensing, Copyright, Plagiarism
27 points by themanmaran 2 days ago | 4 comments
Jawboning in Plain Sight: The Unconstitutional Censorship Tolerated by the DMCA (rstreet.org)
Section 512 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) provides critically needed liability protection for the providers of intermediary services that the internet depends on. But that protection can come at the cost of the very user expression these services exist to intermediate because of the jawboning pressure baked into the statute. Such an unconstitutional effect is not inevitable, however.
Legal Issues, Censorship, Internet Law, Copyright
24 points by hn_acker 5 days ago | 4 comments
Judge tosses publishers' copyright suit against OpenAI (theregister.com)
A US judge has thrown out a case against ChatGPT developer OpenAI which alleged it unlawfully removed copyright management information (CMI) when building training sets for its chatbots.
Copyright, Artificial Intelligence, Lawsuits, OpenAI, Generative AI
31 points by Liriel 11 days ago | 21 comments
Google Hit 1B DMCA Requests Last Year – Here's What They're Really Used For (unbound.news)
Torrentfreak recently reported that Google had processed over 1,000,000,000 DMCA requests in the past 12 months.
Copyright, Law, Google, Technology, Transparency
12 points by zxlk21e 16 days ago | 0 comments
Men Arrested for Transcribing a Movie, Posting Details to a Website (torrentfreak.com)
In what is believed to be the first case of its type in Japan, three men have been arrested for transcribing movies and then using the material without obtaining permission from rightsholders.
Copyright, Law Enforcement, Entertainment, Japan
38 points by isaacfrond 20 days ago | 39 comments
New Nintendo Music app could spell more trouble for illicit soundtrack posters (arstechnica.com)
Last night, Nintendo pulled off a surprise launch of a new Nintendo Music smartphone app, offering many of the company's staple soundtrack songs as a perk to Nintendo Switch Online subscribers. But the new subscription freebie could give Nintendo additional motivation to once again crack down on Internet users who have been collecting and posting Nintendo music online for years now.
Video Games, Music Streaming, Copyright, Piracy
4 points by duxup 21 days ago | 0 comments
It's a Palworld After All a Lawyer Explains Nintendo vs. Palworld [video] (youtube.com)
Law, Gaming, Nintendo, Video Games, Copyright
31 points by CaliforniaKarl 22 days ago | 25 comments
When does generative AI qualify for fair use? (suchir.net)
While generative models rarely produce outputs that are substantially similar to any of their training inputs, the process of training a generative model involves making copies of copyrighted data. If these copies are unauthorized, this could potentially be considered copyright infringement, depending on whether or not the specific use of the model qualifies as “fair use”. Because fair use is determined on a case-by-case basis, no broad statement can be made about when generative AI qualifies for fair use.
Generative AI, Copyright, Fair Use, Law
9 points by miles 28 days ago | 1 comments
The Tragedy of Google Books (2017) (theatlantic.com)
“Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them.”
Google Books, Copyright, Publishing, Data Privacy
503 points by lispybanana 30 days ago | 182 comments
Don't Publish with IEEE (2005) (cr.yp.to)
IEEE is refusing to accept public-domain papers except from government authors.
Academic Publishing, Open Access, Copyright
239 points by stargrave 30 days ago | 92 comments
Internal blog post reveals Automattic's plan (techcrunch.com)
According to an internal blog post a source shared with TechCrunch, Automattic was crafting a plan to get significantly stricter about trademark enforcement across WordPress and its e-commerce platform WooCommerce since at least the beginning of the year. Separate sources have confirmed the authenticity of the post.
WordPress, E-commerce, Copyright, Business, Legal
8 points by wpinsider 32 days ago | 1 comments
Penguin Random House underscores copyright protection in AI rebuff (thebookseller.com)
The world’s biggest trade publisher has changed the wording on its copyright pages to help protect authors’ intellectual property from being used to train large language models (LLMs) and other artificial intelligence (AI) tools, The Bookseller can exclusively reveal.
Copyright, Artificial Intelligence, Publishing
34 points by marban 33 days ago | 56 comments
EU court upholds right to sell Playstation add-ons, in loss for Sony (euronews.com)
Software sold by UK company Datel that allowed infinite boosts on a racing game doesn’t infringe EU copyright law, judges in Luxembourg said, in a ruling that some say could prove crucial to the gaming sector.
Gaming, Law, Copyright, Europe, Sony
61 points by josephcsible 34 days ago | 11 comments
The New York Times warns AI search engine Perplexity to stop using its content (theverge.com)
The New York Times has demanded that AI search engine startup Perplexity stop using content from its site in a cease and desist letter sent to the company, reports The Wall Street Journal.
Artificial Intelligence, Journalism, Copyright, Legal Issues, News
13 points by jatins 37 days ago | 5 comments
5th Circuit rules ISP should have terminated Internet users accused of piracy (arstechnica.com)
Music publishing companies notched another court victory against a broadband provider that refused to terminate the accounts of Internet users accused of piracy.
Law, Copyright, Internet, Piracy
27 points by impish9208 41 days ago | 9 comments
New Italian Law Threatens ISPs with Prison over Piracy Reporting Failures (torrentfreak.com)
Italian ISPs are required to work with AGCOM and rightsholders to ensure the Piracy Shield blocking system operates as intended. It's a burden that only benefits rightsholders, but the ISPs are expected to cover their own costs. That contribution was insulted this week by a legal amendment that threatens ISPs with prison for failing to report piracy to the authorities. Google describes it as a requirement to flood the judiciary to avoid prison.
Piracy, Law, Italy, Copyright
73 points by isaacfrond 45 days ago | 53 comments
Artist appeals copyright denial for prize-winning AI-generated work (arstechnica.com)
Jason Allen—a synthetic media artist whose Midjourney-generated work "Théâtre D'opéra Spatial" went viral and incited backlash after winning a state fair art competition—is not giving up his fight with the US Copyright Office.
Artificial Intelligence, Art, Copyright, Law
19 points by impish9208 45 days ago | 20 comments
'Modded Hardware' Defendant Denies Nintendo's Copyright Claims in Court (torrentfreak.com)
The alleged operator of Modded Hardware has filed an answer to Nintendo's copyright complaint, denying any wrongdoing.
Lawsuits, Gaming, Copyright, Nintendo, Hardware
17 points by gslin 45 days ago | 3 comments
ISPs Betrayed over Pirate Site-Blocking Threats, the Reckoning Will Be Invisible (torrentfreak.com)
Italian ISPs are required to work with AGCOM and rightsholders to ensure the Piracy Shield blocking system operates as intended. It's a burden that only benefits rightsholders, but the ISPs are expected to cover their own costs. That contribution was insulted this week by a legal amendment that threatens ISPs with prison for failing to report piracy to the authorities. Google describes it as a requirement to flood the judiciary to avoid prison.
Piracy, Law Enforcement, Italy, Copyright
8 points by gslin 46 days ago | 4 comments
YouTube puts a Strike for showing how to setup Jellyfin (twitter.com)
YouTube, Video Streaming, Copyright, Open Source
36 points by humbfool2 49 days ago | 20 comments
Famous AI Artist Says He's Losing Millions from People Stealing His Work (gizmodo.com)
Much consternation spread throughout the artistic community two years ago when Jason M. Allen, an executive at a tabletop gaming startup, submitted an AI-generated “painting” to a Colorado digital art competition and won.
Artificial Intelligence, Art, Copyright, Generative AI, Ethics
49 points by mikro2nd 50 days ago | 94 comments
Famous AI artist says he's losing million$ from people stealing his work (gizmodo.com)
Much consternation spread throughout the artistic community two years ago when Jason M. Allen, an executive at a tabletop gaming startup, submitted an AI-generated “painting” to a Colorado digital art competition and won.
Artificial Intelligence, Art, Copyright, Technology, Business
14 points by anigbrowl 50 days ago | 8 comments
The $621M Legal Battle by Record Labels Against Internet Archive (rollingstone.com)
In the old chapel of a former Christian Science church in San Francisco, late-afternoon sun pours orange through the windows and several giant servers are hard at work.
Legal Battles, Music Industry, Internet Archive, Copyright
179 points by coloneltcb 51 days ago | 95 comments
Google Wins Lawsuit Against Scammers Who 'Weaponized' DMCA Takedowns (torrentfreak.com)
Google has obtained a default judgment against two men who abused its DMCA takedown system to falsely target 117,000 URLs of competitors' online stores.
Legal Issues, Copyright, Online Piracy
32 points by rc00 51 days ago | 4 comments
Pirate library must pay publishers $30M, but no one knows who runs it (arstechnica.com)
On Thursday, some links to the notorious shadow library Library Genesis (Libgen) couldn't be reached after a US district court judge, Colleen McMahon, ordered what TorrentFreak called "one of the broadest anti-piracy injunctions" ever issued by a US court.
Legal Action, Piracy, Copyright, Libraries, Publishing
113 points by ohjeez 53 days ago | 2 comments
YouTube removes many hit songs due to SESAC copyright dispute (theverge.com)
Some of the most watched and listened to music on YouTube and YouTube Music disappeared on Saturday, replaced by a short message:
Music, Copyright, Lawsuits, YouTube
30 points by BuildWithMason 53 days ago | 10 comments
U.S. court orders LibGen to pay $30M to publishers, issues broad injunction (torrentfreak.com)
A New York federal court has ordered the operators of shadow library LibGen to pay $30 million in copyright infringement damages.
Lawsuits, Copyright, Publishing, Libraries
416 points by samizdis 56 days ago | 493 comments
Actors are suing an AI company for cloning their voices without permission (nytimes.com)
Two voice actors say an A.I. company created clones of their voices without their permission. Now they’re suing. The company denies it did anything wrong.
Artificial Intelligence, Lawsuits, Entertainment, Copyright
7 points by Geekette 59 days ago | 0 comments
Boy named after Star Wars character denied passport due t copyright infringement (nzherald.co.nz)
Copyright, Law, Names, Star Wars
32 points by mdp2021 59 days ago | 14 comments
Copyright Keepers Just Destroyed a Digital Library (jacobin.com)
In a troubling blow to public access, a US appeals court sided with big publishers, erasing half a million books from the Internet Archive’s lending library.
Copyright, Digital Libraries, Public Access, Law
26 points by mdp2021 61 days ago | 11 comments