Hacker News with Generative AI: Copyright

OpenAI fails to deliver opt-out system for photographers (petapixel.com)
OpenAI has missed its own 2025 deadline on a tool it said would allow photographers to exclude their work from the company’s training data.
OpenAI, Photography, Copyright
199 points by onetokeoverthe 2 days ago | 154 comments
Zuckerberg approved training Llama on LibGen [pdf] (courtlistener.com)
Meta, Artificial Intelligence, Copyright, Law
151 points by stefan_ 6 days ago | 191 comments
Torrenting from a Meta-owned corporate laptop doesn't feel right (wired.com)
Meta just lost a major fight in its ongoing legal battle with a group of authors suing the company for copyright infringement over how it trained its artificial intelligence models.
Meta, Copyright, Artificial Intelligence, Lawsuits
23 points by hdjjhhvvhga 6 days ago | 10 comments
Meta Confesses to Training Llama with Pirated LibGen Data [pdf] (courtlistener.com)
Meta, Lawsuits, Data, Copyright
10 points by serjester 8 days ago | 4 comments
Mark Zuckerberg gave Meta's Llama team the OK to train on copyrighted works (techcrunch.com)
Counsel for plaintiffs in a copyright lawsuit filed against Meta allege that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave the green light to the team behind the company’s Llama AI models to use a dataset of pirated e-books and articles for training.
Copyright, Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence, Lawsuits, Meta
8 points by thebeardisred 8 days ago | 5 comments
Popeye is now Public Domain (theverge.com)
It’s a new year, and that means more works are headed to the public domain. This year, thousands of copyrighted works created in 1929, including the earliest versions of Popeye and the Belgian comic book character Tintin, are now free to reuse and repurpose in the US.
Public Domain, Copyright, Comics, Pop Culture
24 points by propagate97 13 days ago | 0 comments
Dangerous copyright precedent set by Teenage Engineering [video] (youtube.com)
Copyright, Law, Music Production, Legal Precedents, Teenage Engineering
15 points by Aldipower 13 days ago | 3 comments
Anthropic gives court authority to intervene if chatbot spits out song lyrics (arstechnica.com)
On Thursday, music publishers got a small win in a copyright fight alleging that Anthropic's Claude chatbot regurgitates song lyrics without paying licensing fees to rights holders.
Copyright, Artificial Intelligence, Music, Legal
4 points by pseudolus 15 days ago | 1 comments
It Matters Who Owns Your Copylefted Copyrights (2021) (sfconservancy.org)
Throughout the history of Free and Open Source software (FOSS), copyright assignment has simultaneously been controversial and accepted as the norm in our FOSS communities.
Open Source, Copyright, Law
125 points by pabs3 15 days ago | 204 comments
More Than Half of All Google Search Takedowns Now Come from Link-Busters (torrentfreak.com)
Link-Busters is the unofficial DMCA takedown champion of 2024. The anti-piracy outfit works for many of the world's largest publishing companies and is currently flagging the majority of all 'pirate' URLs to Google search; more than two billion in total. Despite this stellar effort, book pirates are chalking up new records too.
Copyright, Piracy, Google Search, DMCA, Publishing
14 points by isaacfrond 16 days ago | 0 comments
Welcome to the Public Domain in 2025 (archive.org)
On January 1, 2025, we celebrate published works from 1929 and published sound recordings from 1924 entering the public domain! The passage of these works into the public domain celebrates our shared cultural heritage. The ability to breathe new life into long forgotten works, remix the most popular and enduring works of the time, and to better circulate the oddities we find in thrift stores, attics, and on random pockets of the internet are now freely available for us all.
Public Domain, Copyright, Cultural Heritage, Creative Reuse
165 points by ecliptik 16 days ago | 14 comments
Public Domain Day 2025 (law.duke.edu)
On January 1, 2025, thousands of copyrighted works from 1929 will enter the US public domain, along with sound recordings from 1924. They will be free for all to copy, share, and build upon.
Copyright, Public Domain, Law, History, United States
30 points by DamonHD 18 days ago | 2 comments
YouTuber won DMCA fight with fake Nintendo lawyer by detecting spoofed email (arstechnica.com)
A brave YouTuber has managed to defeat a fake Nintendo lawyer improperly targeting his channel with copyright takedowns that could have seen his entire channel removed if YouTube issued one more strike.
Copyright, YouTube, Law, Legal Disputes
19 points by thunderbong 21 days ago | 0 comments
Copyright Industry Wants to Apply Automated Blocking to Core Internet Routers (techdirt.com)
Copyright, Internet, Censorship, Technology, Law
10 points by DanAtC 21 days ago | 0 comments
Fake Nintendo lawyer is scaring YouTubers, and its not clear YouTube can stop it (theverge.com)
In late September, Dominik “Domtendo” Neumayer received a troubling email.
Legal Issues, YouTube, Gaming, Copyright
259 points by tombot 22 days ago | 196 comments
AI's assault on our intellectual property must be stopped (ft.com)
AI’s assault on our intellectual property must be stopped
Artificial Intelligence, Intellectual Property, Copyright, Law, Technology
6 points by belter 27 days ago | 4 comments
UK Gov Open Consultation: Copyright and Artificial Intelligence (gov.uk)
This consultation seeks views on how the government can ensure the UK’s legal framework for AI and copyright supports the UK creative industries and AI sector together.
Copyright, Artificial Intelligence, Government, UK, Creative Industries
23 points by nickcotter 28 days ago | 9 comments
'United Healthcare' Using DMCA Against Luigi Mangione Images (abovethelaw.com)
Someone purporting to be United Healthcare is filing DMCA requests to scrub the internet of artists’ depictions of the surveillance video of Luigi smiling, parody merchandise of “Deny, Defend, Depose,” and other merchandise showing the alleged shooter.
Copyright, Lawsuits, Healthcare, Art, Surveillance
12 points by miles 29 days ago | 2 comments
Popeye and Tintin enter the public domain in 2025 along with Faulkner, Hemingway (apnews.com)
Popeye can punch without permission and Tintin can roam freely starting in 2025. The two classic comic characters who first appeared in 1929 are among the intellectual properties becoming public domain in the United States on Jan. 1.
Public Domain, Copyright, Literature, Comics
419 points by sohkamyung 33 days ago | 207 comments
Cox to Appeals Court: DMCA Subpoenas Don't Apply to Us, Period * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)
In a recent filing at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, ISP Cox maintains that DMCA subpoenas don't apply to Internet providers.
Law, DMCA, Copyright
6 points by isaacfrond 36 days ago | 2 comments
Consider Negotiating with Infringers (thelegalartist.com)
As a creative professional, protecting your intellectual property is key to staying successful. So when someone infringes your copyright, what do you do?
Intellectual Property, Copyright, Law, Negotiation, Legal Advice
71 points by chmaynard 37 days ago | 46 comments
Save Music, Save the Archive (savethearchive.com)
Over 350 musicians are speaking out to demand that major labels drop a lawsuit aimed to destroy the Internet Archive—and for their industry to take concrete actions to realign their actions with the interests of working artists. Sign their open letter now to show your support.
Music Industry, Copyright, Internet Archive, Activism
355 points by m463 39 days ago | 207 comments
Mend it Mark gets suspect copyright strike for £25k audio amp repair (hackaday.com)
We were recently notified by a reader that [Tom Evans] had filed a copyright claim against [Mark]’s repair video on his Mend it Mark YouTube channel, taking down said repair video as well as [Mark]’s delightful commentary.
Copyright, YouTube, Repair, Electronics, Law
306 points by Workaccount2 41 days ago | 144 comments
YouTuber repairs audiophile preamp, gets copyright strike [video] (youtube.com)
YouTube, Music Production, Copyright, Audio Engineering
8 points by markrages 42 days ago | 1 comments
End of Hachette vs. Internet Archive (archive.org)
While we are deeply disappointed with the Second Circuit’s opinion in Hachette v. Internet Archive, the Internet Archive has decided not to pursue Supreme Court review.
Legal Cases, Digital Libraries, Copyright
23 points by jzb 43 days ago | 1 comments
End of Hachette v. Internet Archive (archive.org)
While we are deeply disappointed with the Second Circuit’s opinion in Hachette v. Internet Archive, the Internet Archive has decided not to pursue Supreme Court review.
Legal Cases, Copyright, Libraries
12 points by hn_acker 44 days ago | 2 comments
Getty Images CEO: Respecting fair use rules won't prevent AI from curing cancer (fortune.com)
There is a lot of debate on whether freely training artificial intelligence (AI) models on copyrighted materials is permissible under the law.
Artificial Intelligence, Copyright, Law, Business, Healthcare
24 points by benkan 46 days ago | 17 comments
What will enter the public domain in 2025? (publicdomainreview.org)
At the start of each year, on January 1st, a new crop of works enter the public domain and become free to enjoy, share, and reuse for any purpose.
Public Domain, Copyright, Creative Commons
405 points by Tomte 47 days ago | 341 comments
Court Rejects Appeal of YouTube-Dl Hosting Provider 'Uberspace' (torrentfreak.com)
Hosting provider Uberspace has suffered another setback in a German court. The court of appeal ruled against youtube-dl's former hosting provider, holding it liable for alleged violations of YouTube's copyright protection measures. The owner of the company is currently considering further appeal options. Meanwhile, youtube-dl remains available on GitHub.
Copyright, Law, Hosting, Germany, YouTube
25 points by r1chardnl 49 days ago | 3 comments
European Police Pull Plug on 'Largest' Illegal Streaming Service (barrons.com)
An international police operation has shut down "one of the world's largest" illegal online streaming services, used by some 22 million people worldwide and causing billions of euros in copyright damages, EU law agencies said on Wednesday.
Copyright, Piracy, Streaming Services, Law Enforcement, Europe
11 points by SirLJ 51 days ago | 10 comments