Hacker News with Generative AI: Copyright Law

EFF Sides with Cox to Protect Piracy-Accused Internet Users from Copyright Troll (torrentfreak.com)
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has got involved in a lawsuit between several movie companies and ISP Cox, who disagree over the use of DMCA subpoenas to identify alleged pirates. The EFF argues this could be abused by "copyright trolls" to target innocent users. They urge the court to require a full lawsuit with judicial oversight.

Copyright Law, Digital Rights, Internet Privacy, Legal Cases

8 points by gslin 5 days ago | 0 comments

Zuckerberg gave Meta's Llama team OK to train on copyrighted works,filing claims (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.

Artificial Intelligence, Copyright Law, Legal Issues, Meta, Business

10 points by croes 8 days ago | 2 comments

New Huawei Headquarters Glass Dome Copyright Infringement Dispute (crowndome.com)
The USA trade war with China is one of the most discussed issues today in the press. I have my own story to tell about my experience in protecting my intellectual property and the integrity of my original artworks. Here we go... A practical study of copyright infringement of a Canadian glass artist

Intellectual Property, Copyright Law, China, USA, Art

34 points by amarcheschi 10 days ago | 30 comments

3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down as copyright violation (twitter.com)

Copyright Law, YouTube, Bitcoin, 3blue1brown

857 points by talonx 11 days ago | 412 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 Law, YouTube, Lawsuits, Legal Battles, Digital Rights

264 points by isaacfrond 18 days ago | 97 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 Law, Lawsuits, Healthcare, Social Media, Parody

385 points by haunter 26 days ago | 240 comments

January 1, 2025 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1929 are open to all (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.

Public Domain, Copyright Law, History, Creative Works

9 points by Ozarkian 32 days ago | 0 comments

Canada's First Pirate Site Blocking Order Expires (torrentfreak.com)

Canada, Copyright Law, Piracy, Internet Law

61 points by gslin 33 days ago | 30 comments

Suchir's Essay on 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 Law, Fair Use

45 points by hgarg 35 days ago | 14 comments

French Piracy Blocking Order Goes Global, DNS Service Quad9 Vows to Fight (torrentfreak.com)
In an ongoing escalation of its fight against online sports piracy, media giant Canal+ secured court orders compelling DNS providers Quad9 and Vercara to block access to pirate streaming sites in France. Quad9 says that it's determined to appeal what it sees as an absurd application of copyright law. For now, however, it will block the targeted domain names globally.

Copyright Law, Piracy, DNS, France, Internet

36 points by latexr 37 days ago | 22 comments

Self-Funding Harberger Taxes (gwern.net)
Hampering the current life+n years system of unregistered copyrights is the dual problem of mismanagement & orphan works.

Taxes, Copyright Law

99 points by surprisetalk 44 days ago | 92 comments

Core copyright violation moves ahead in The Intercept's lawsuit against OpenAI (niemanlab.org)
Last week, a New York federal judge ruled a key copyright violation claim by The Intercept against OpenAI would move ahead in court.

Copyright Law, Journalism, AI, Legal Cases

307 points by giuliomagnifico 50 days ago | 364 comments

Square Enix accused of abusing copyright law to silence fan criticism (metro.co.uk)
The makers of Life is Strange: Double Exposure are accused by fans of using legal takedowns to limit discussion and criticism of the game.

Gaming, Copyright Law, Legal Disputes, Fan Criticism

7 points by mikhael 58 days ago | 0 comments

Canada Just Fixed Copyright Law for Repair (ifixit.com)
What do ice cream machines, Xboxes, and tractors have in common? Fixing them just became legal in Canada: They all have certain repairs that are blocked by software called technological protection measures. Until yesterday, you’d risk violating copyright law if you bypassed those software protections in Canada.

Copyright Law, Repair, Technology, Canada

13 points by pseudolus 64 days ago | 0 comments

Google Asked to Remove 10B "Pirate" Search Results (torrentfreak.com)
Rightsholders have asked Google to remove more than 10 billion 'copyright infringing' URLs from its search results.

Copyright Law, Google, Search Engines, Piracy

33 points by gslin 74 days ago | 7 comments

A new copyright rule lets McDonald's fix its own broken ice cream machines (npr.org)
A new exemption to a copyright law could pave the way for quicker repairs to the machines, sweetening the McFlurry maker's sour reputation.

Copyright Law, Fast Food, McDonald's, Business

9 points by pseudolus 76 days ago | 1 comments

Big Tech barons are plotting to steal Britain's creativity via copyright law (telegraph.co.uk)
Labour has an incredibly relaxed attitude to British property. As the Chagos islanders found out, it wants to give away as much as it can, as quickly as possible. Next, it’s the turn of Britain’s creative industries and publishers.

Copyright Law, Politics, Creative Industries, UK

22 points by walterbell 78 days ago | 5 comments

Laion wins copyright infringement lawsuit in German court (technollama.co.uk)
Copyright AI nerds have been eagerly awaiting a decision in the German case of Kneschke v LAION (previous blog post about the case here), and yesterday we got a ruling (text of the decision in German here, courtesy of Mirko Brüß). In short, LAION was successful in its defence against claims for copyright infringement.

Copyright Law, Artificial Intelligence, Legal Cases

11 points by pcaharrier 81 days ago | 0 comments

Feds: You Don't Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books (gizmodo.com)
The U.S. Copyright Office denied an exemption from the DMCA to allow gaming historians to access out-of-print games they can’t legally get anywhere else.

Copyright Law, Video Games, Gaming History, Law, DMCA

115 points by mikhael 84 days ago | 98 comments

History Foundation Disappointed DMCA Decision Won't Grant Researchers Exemptions (ign.com)
The US Copyright Office has declined to grant a new exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that would allow libraries and archives to offer remote, digital access to out-of-market video games for verified researchers.

Copyright Law, Video Games, Libraries, Research

6 points by josephcsible 84 days ago | 0 comments

US Copyright Office "frees the McFlurry," allowing repair of ice cream machines (arstechnica.com)
Consumer advocacy group Public Knowledge today hailed a decision by the US Copyright Office to "grant an exemption specifically allowing for repair of retail-level food preparation equipment—including soft serve ice cream machines similar to those available at McDonald's."

Copyright Law, Repair, Consumer Advocacy, Food Industry

40 points by impish9208 84 days ago | 4 comments

Twitter blocks EFF tweet that criticized bogus takedown of previous tweet [2019] (arstechnica.com)
Twitter and Starz have given us a new example of how copyright enforcement can easily go overboard.

Twitter, Copyright Law, Censorship, Free Speech

14 points by 3np 113 days ago | 3 comments

AI Training is Copyright Infringement (under European law) (urheber.info)

AI, Copyright Law, Europe, Legal Issues

27 points by layer8 134 days ago | 44 comments

The Internet Archive Loses Its Appeal of a Major Copyright Case (wired.com)

Copyright Law, Internet Archive, Legal Battles

27 points by leotravis10 135 days ago | 2 comments

Webtoon Targets 170 Pirate Domains Through DMCA Subpoena (torrentfreak.com)