Hacker News with Generative AI: Copyright

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
6 points by CHB0403085482 5 hours 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
7 points by gaws 19 hours 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 9 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 16 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 19 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 20 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 21 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 21 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 21 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 22 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 23 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 25 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 27 days ago | 9 comments
Free Output – AI output copyright status checker (freeoutput.org)
Copyright, Artificial Intelligence, Tools
35 points by knewter 28 days ago | 19 comments
OpenAI's Ghibli frenzy took a dark turn real fast (businessinsider.com)
From meme madness to copyright concerns, the release of OpenAI's new image generator this week has been nothing short of dramatic.
Generative AI, OpenAI, Copyright, Memes, Art
7 points by bentobean 29 days ago | 2 comments
OpenAI's viral Studio Ghibli moment highlights AI copyright concerns (techcrunch.com)
It’s only been a day since ChatGPT’s new AI image generator went live, and social media feeds are already flooded with AI-generated memes in the style of Studio Ghibli, the cult-favorite Japanese animation studio behind blockbuster films such as “My Neighbor Totoro” and “Spirited Away.”
Generative AI, Copyright, Artificial Intelligence, Social Media, Art
11 points by marban 30 days ago | 0 comments
I have fought and won against the piracy of my books as an indie author (kerkour.com)
Self-Publishing, Indie Authors, Copyright, Piracy
7 points by Tomte 31 days ago | 0 comments
A note on LibGen and the unauthorized use of our authors' work (mitpress.mit.edu)
Anyone following the conversation around AI and large language models (LLMs) will find Alex Reisner’s article “The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem,” published yesterday in The Atlantic, eye-opening.
Copyright, Generative AI, Publishing
5 points by gnabgib 34 days ago | 0 comments
Director Uses Takedowns to Remove Pirate Bay Docu "TPB-AFK" from YouTube (torrentfreak.com)
In an unexpected turn of events, the director of the Pirate Bay documentary TPB-AFK has sent takedown notices to YouTube requesting its removal. The director states that he sees the streaming portal as a radicalizing platform full of hate. The takedowns are not without controversy, however, as TPB-AFK was published under a Creative Commons license.
Copyright, Piracy, Documentaries, YouTube, Controversy
12 points by gslin 34 days ago | 1 comments
Copyright infringement is a 'strict liability' offence (dacs.org.uk)
Infringement is decided on a case by case basis. If you think your work has been infringed, you’ll need to provide some proof of the infringement. It’s always a good idea to keep records of your work, in case you need to rely on them at a later point to prove authorship or date of creation.
Copyright, Law, Legal Issues, Intellectual Property
17 points by dp-hackernews 34 days ago | 0 comments
Facebook Pirated My Books (wordpress.com)
The Atlantic has an interesting story on all the books Meta/Facebook pirated to train their Llama 3 AI model.
Artificial Intelligence, Copyright, Social Media, Books
12 points by ingve 36 days ago | 1 comments
"Wait, not like that": Free and open access in the age of generative AI (citationneeded.news)
The real threat isn’t AI using open knowledge — it’s AI companies killing the projects that make knowledge free
Generative AI, Open Access, Research, Copyright, Artificial Intelligence
126 points by thinkingemote 41 days ago | 47 comments
OpenAI and Google ask the government to let them train AI on content (theverge.com)
OpenAI and Google are pushing the US government to allow their AI models to train on copyrighted material.
Artificial Intelligence, Copyright, Government Regulation, Technology, Business
5 points by jarsin 41 days ago | 2 comments
Google agrees with OpenAI that copyright has no place in AI development (arstechnica.com)
Google says it just wants "balanced" copyright rules.
Google, OpenAI, Copyright, Artificial Intelligence, AI
15 points by BerislavLopac 43 days ago | 3 comments
Copyright and the Demoscene (Scandal Amiga Demo) (datagubbe.se)
Being eight years old and not speaking any English whatsoever meant that my early understanding of Amiga games was somewhat patchy. Nevertheless, some things will make an impression no matter what. Take German cracking group Unit A's 1988 cracktro for the flight simulator Interceptor, for example.
Copyright, Demoscene, Retro Gaming, History
3 points by marinbala 43 days ago | 2 comments
Copyright and the Demo Scene (datagubbe.se)
Being eight years old and not speaking any English whatsoever meant that my early understanding of Amiga games was somewhat patchy. Nevertheless, some things will make an impression no matter what. Take German cracking group Unit A's 1988 cracktro for the flight simulator Interceptor, for example.
Copyright, Demo Scene, Amiga, Cracking
98 points by zdw 43 days ago | 25 comments
OpenAI declares AI race "over" if training on copyrighted works isn't fair use (arstechnica.com)
OpenAI is hoping that Donald Trump's AI Action Plan, due out this July, will settle copyright debates by declaring AI training fair use—paving the way for AI companies' unfettered access to training data that OpenAI claims is critical to defeat China in the AI race.
Artificial Intelligence, Copyright, Legal, China, Competition
46 points by pseudolus 43 days ago | 5 comments
Copyright and the Demo Scene (datagubbe.se)
Being eight years old and not speaking any English whatsoever meant that my early understanding of Amiga games was somewhat patchy. Nevertheless, some things will make an impression no matter what. Take German cracking group Unit A's 1988 cracktro for the flight simulator Interceptor, for example.
Copyright, Video Games, Amiga, Cracking Groups, Demo Scene
9 points by ingve 43 days ago | 0 comments
OpenAI declares AI race "over" if training on copyrighted works isn't fair use (arstechnica.com)
OpenAI is hoping that Donald Trump's AI Action Plan, due out this July, will settle copyright debates by declaring AI training fair use—paving the way for AI companies' unfettered access to training data that OpenAI claims is critical to defeat China in the AI race.
Artificial Intelligence, Copyright, Legal Issues, China
11 points by rntn 44 days ago | 2 comments
Meta mocked for raising "Bob Dylan defense" of torrenting in AI copyright fight (arstechnica.com)
Authors think that Meta's admitted torrenting of a pirated books data set used to train its AI models is evidence enough to win their copyright fight—which previously hinged on a court ruling that AI training on copyrighted works isn't fair use.
Artificial Intelligence, Copyright, Lawsuits
11 points by speckx 45 days ago | 1 comments