Hacker News with Generative AI: Copyright

Meta claims torrenting pirated books isn't illegal without proof of seeding (arstechnica.com)
Meta claims torrenting pirated books isn’t illegal without proof of seeding

Legal Issues, Piracy, Copyright, Books, Technology

484 points by isaacfrond 8 hours ago | 338 comments

AI and Copyright: Expanding Copyright Hurts Everyone–Here's What to Do Instead (eff.org)
You shouldn't need a permission slip to read a webpage–whether you do it with your own eyes, or use software to help. AI is a category of general-purpose tools with myriad beneficial uses. Requiring developers to license the materials needed to create this technology threatens the development of more innovative and inclusive AI models, as well as important uses of AI as a tool for expression and scientific research.

Artificial Intelligence, Copyright, Law, Technology, Open Source

6 points by hn_acker 1 day ago | 0 comments

EU accused of leaving 'devastating' copyright loophole in AI Act (theguardian.com)
An architect of EU copyright law has said legislation is needed to protect writers, musicians and creatives left exposed by an “irresponsible” legal gap in the bloc’s Artificial Intelligence Act.

EU Law, Copyright, Artificial Intelligence, Creative Industries

8 points by belter 2 days ago | 1 comments

ProtonVPN: Site Blocking Is an Attack on Users' Online Freedom (torrentfreak.com)
In France, rightsholders have taken legal action to get large VPN providers on board with their pirate site blocking program. The aim is to prevent circumvention of existing blocking measures in place to reduce widespread copyright infringement. From the VPN provider's perspective, site blocking threatens online freedom. Swiss provider ProtonVPN describes blocking as 'a dangerous attack on Internet freedom on the altar of corporate greed'.

VPNs, Internet Freedom, Copyright, France, Digital Rights

5 points by hn_acker 4 days ago | 0 comments

Google's Piracy Purge: 3.5B DMCA Takedown Notices in a Year (torrentfreak.com)
Google has completed the busiest twelve months ever on the DMCA takedown front. The popular search engine processed a record-breaking 3.5 billion takedown requests during the year. Ironically, this milestone is in part a byproduct of ongoing anti-piracy measures, including site blocking and search engine removals, with no end in sight.

Copyright, Law Enforcement, Google, Piracy, Internet

67 points by gslin 5 days ago | 8 comments

First Copyright for a Single Image Made with AI (cnet.com)
The image, called "A Single Piece of American Cheese," was created using Invoke's AI editing platform.

Artificial Intelligence, Copyright, Art, Generative AI

5 points by sophrocyne 11 days ago | 1 comments

Cline founder stole my code (github.com/cline)
The Apache License 2.0 is designed to promote open-source collaboration while ensuring that proper attribution is maintained.

Open Source, Software, Law, Copyright

22 points by Szpadel 12 days ago | 1 comments

What's going on with AI copyright authorship? (technollama.co.uk)
It’s been a while since we covered the AI authorship debate here at Llama Towers, despite it being one of the first AI legal questions we discussed here nearly 10 years ago (time flies when you’re having fun, eh?). The gap has largely been because everyone’s attention has been centred squarely on copyright infringement, leaving the AI authorship question to take a backseat.

Artificial Intelligence, Copyright, Law

4 points by AndrewDucker 13 days ago | 0 comments

Creators demand tech giants fess up and pay for all that AI training data (theregister.com)
Governments are allowing AI developers to steal content – both creative and journalistic – for fear of upsetting the tech sector and damaging investment, a UK Parliamentary committee heard this week.

AI, Copyright, Technology, Government Regulation, Media

6 points by rntn 14 days ago | 1 comments

Fruit of the Poisonous Llama? (2023) (shkspr.mobi)
A group of authors are suing various vendors of Large Language Model AIs. The authors claim that the AIs are trained on material which infringes their copyright.

Copyright, Generative AI, Lawsuits

32 points by edent 14 days ago | 41 comments

Hank Azaria's 'Simpsons' Voices Won't Be Fully Replicated by A.I (nytimes.com)
I imagine that soon enough, artificial intelligence will be able to recreate the sounds of the more than 100 voices I created for characters on “The Simpsons” over almost four decades. It makes me sad to think about it. Not to mention, it seems just plain wrong to steal my likeness or sound — or anyone else’s.

Artificial Intelligence, Entertainment, The Simpsons, Voice Acting, Copyright

8 points by donohoe 17 days ago | 3 comments

Sony issues DMCA takedown for Bloodborne 60fps mod (pcgamer.com)

Video Games, Mods, Sony, Copyright

12 points by hd4 18 days ago | 0 comments

Copyright Is a Civil Liberties Nightmare (eff.org)
If you’ve got lawyers and a copyright, the law gives you tremendous power to silence speech you don’t like.

Copyright, Civil Liberties, Law, Free Speech

9 points by hn_acker 19 days ago | 0 comments

Purely AI-generated art can't get copyright protection, says Copyright Office (theverge.com)
Generative artificial intelligence output based purely on text prompts — even detailed ones — isn’t protected by current copyright law, according to the US Copyright Office.

Artificial Intelligence, Law, Copyright, Generative AI

41 points by SerCe 21 days ago | 17 comments

How one YouTuber is trying to poison the AI bots stealing her content (arstechnica.com)
Never go up against a YouTuber when transcripts are on the line!

Artificial Intelligence, Copyright, Content Creation, YouTube

15 points by LorenDB 22 days ago | 0 comments

AI's boosters think copyrighted works are fair game but that their models aren't (arstechnica.com)
ChatGPT developer OpenAI and other players in the generative AI business were caught unawares this week by a Chinese company named DeepSeek, whose open source R1 simulated reasoning model provides results similar to OpenAI's best paid models (with some notable exceptions) despite being created using just a fraction of the computing power.

Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence, Copyright, Open Source

8 points by pseudolus 22 days ago | 2 comments

New Bill Aims to Block Pirate Sites in the U.S. (torrentfreak.com)
Pirate site blocking orders are a step closer to becoming reality in the United States after Rep. Zoe Lofgren introduced the Foreign Anti-Digital Piracy Act earlier today.

Legislation, Piracy, Copyright, Internet

31 points by ls612 23 days ago | 14 comments

Democrat teams up with movie industry to propose website-blocking law (arstechnica.com)
US Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) today proposed a law that would let copyright owners obtain court orders requiring Internet service providers to block access to foreign piracy websites.

Copyright, Law, Politics, Internet

22 points by bikenaga 23 days ago | 6 comments

AI-assisted works can get copyright (apnews.com)
Artists can copyright works they made with the help of artificial intelligence, according to a new report by the U.S. Copyright Office that could further clear the way for the use of AI tools in Hollywood, the music industry and other creative fields.

Copyright, Artificial Intelligence, Creative Industries, Law

10 points by dr_dshiv 23 days ago | 2 comments

U.S. Anti-Piracy Symposium Emphazises Need for Site Blocking (torrentfreak.com)
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) held an anti-piracy symposium last week to discuss the latest achievements, challenges, and solutions in combating piracy.

Copyright, Piracy, Law, Legal, Intellectual Property

30 points by gslin 24 days ago | 14 comments

Second Circuit Rejects Record Labels' Attempt to Rewrite the DMCA (eff.org)
In a major win for creator communities, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has once again handed video streaming site Vimeo a solid win in its long-running legal battle with Capitol Records and a host of other record labels.

Law, Copyright, DMCA, Music Industry, Online Video

22 points by hn_acker 27 days ago | 3 comments

It sure looks like Meta stole a lot of books to build its AI (lithub.com)
It’s a grim week for Meta. The company formerly known as Facebook, and before that Facemash, “designed to evaluate the attractiveness of female Harvard students,” now encompasses Facebook, Instagram, Threads, WhatsApp, and Meta, the failed vision for a remote workplace, fun-zone, and Zucker-verse where legs are always just around the corner.

Artificial Intelligence, Meta, Copyright

146 points by pseudolus 32 days ago | 181 comments

Zuckerberg appeared to know Llama trained on Libgen (rollingstone.com)
The AI rush has brought with it thorny questions of copyright and ownership of data as tech companies train bots like ChatGPT on existing texts, but it seems Meta largely brushed these aside as they worked to integrate such tools into Facebook and Instagram.

Artificial Intelligence, Copyright, Facebook, Instagram, Data

57 points by bn-l 33 days ago | 77 comments

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

201 points by onetokeoverthe 37 days ago | 153 comments

Zuckerberg approved training Llama on LibGen [pdf] (courtlistener.com)

Meta, Artificial Intelligence, Copyright, Law

155 points by stefan_ 40 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 41 days ago | 10 comments

Meta Confesses to Training Llama with Pirated LibGen Data [pdf] (courtlistener.com)

Meta, Lawsuits, Data, Copyright

10 points by serjester 43 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 43 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.