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TorrentFreak: Rightsholders Reported Five Million Unique ‘Pirate’ Domain Names to Google

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TorrentFreak: Rightsholders Reported Five Million Unique ‘Pirate’ Domain Names to Google. “Over the past several years, copyright holders have asked Google to remove URLs from five million unique domains. These include blatant pirate sites such as The Pirate Bay, but also legal streaming services such as Netflix and Disney+. What stands out most is that a tiny fraction of all domains are responsible for the majority of the trouble.”

EchoEkhi’s Blog: I’m Declaring War Against “What If” Videos: Project Copy-Knight

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EchoEkhi’s Blog: I’m Declaring War Against “What If” Videos: Project Copy-Knight. “They are very easy to make: pick a fanfic, copy all the text into a text-to-speech generator, mix the resulting audio file with some generic art from the fandom as the background, give it a snappy title like ‘What if Deku had the Power of Ten Rings’, photoshop an attention-grabbing thumbnail, dump it onto YouTube and get thousands of views…. In short, an industry has emerged from the systematic copyright theft of fanfiction, for profit.”

Kotaku: YouTuber Accuses Casetify Of Copyright Theft, Has Receipts

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Kotaku: YouTuber Accuses Casetify Of Copyright Theft, Has Receipts. “There’s a brilliant trick map makers use to prevent plagiarism, called ‘trap streets.’ They deliberately put an entirely fictional road, or even entire imaginary towns (‘paper towns’), so that if someone lifts their work without permission it’s immediately identifiable to them. Something very similar is at the center of claims that a billion dollar phone case company has ripped off YouTuber JerryRigEverything.”

404 Media: Bing Generates Disney Logos, Definitely Won’t Incur Disney’s Wrath

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404 Media: Bing Generates Disney Logos, Definitely Won’t Incur Disney’s Wrath . “Microsoft is trying to play prompt generation keyword whack-a-mole with AI-generated copyright infringement against one of the most powerful entertainment companies in the world: Disney.”

The Hindu: Servants of Knowledge to digitally archive Motilal Banarsidass’ out-of-copyright books

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The Hindu: Servants of Knowledge to digitally archive Motilal Banarsidass’ out-of-copyright books. “Servants of Knowledge and Public Resource… are set to take up digital archiving of some of the publications of Motilal Banarsidass, a 120-year-old Delhi-based publisher. Motilal Banarsidass recently arrived at an agreement with Public Resource and Servants of Knowledge to create a free and open archive of all its out-of-copyright books or old books that will not be republished.”

BBC: AI chief quits over ‘exploitative’ copyright row

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BBC: AI chief quits over ‘exploitative’ copyright row. “A senior executive at the tech firm Stability AI has resigned over the company’s view that it is acceptable to use copyrighted work without permission to train its products. Ed Newton-Rex was head of audio at the firm, which is based in the UK and US.”

The Verge: AI companies have all kinds of arguments against paying for copyrighted content

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The Verge: AI companies have all kinds of arguments against paying for copyrighted content. “The US Copyright Office is taking public comment on potential new rules around generative AI’s use of copyrighted materials, and the biggest AI companies in the world had plenty to say. We’ve collected the arguments from Meta, Google, Microsoft, Adobe, Hugging Face, StabilityAI, and Anthropic below, as well as a response from Apple that focused on copyrighting AI-written code. There are some differences in their approaches, but the overall message for most is the same: They don’t think they should have to pay to train AI models on copyrighted work.”

Fast Company: ChatGPT and other AI chatbots rely heavily on copyrighted news media, say publishers

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Fast Company: ChatGPT and other AI chatbots rely heavily on copyrighted news media, say publishers. “Makers of generative artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT have been using copious amounts of copyrighted news material to train their chatbots, according to new accusations from a new trade group. The News/Media Alliance, which represents over 2,200 publishers, showcased its research in a blog post and white paper Tuesday, saying AI companies regularly used the information in news stories without authorization, and violate laws protecting that intellectual property.”

Hyperallergic: Artists Call on Congress to Stop Corporations From Copyrighting AI Art

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Hyperallergic: Artists Call on Congress to Stop Corporations From Copyrighting AI Art. “To keep large corporations from gaining copyrights over art made with AI, artists and allies are being called upon to post about the AI Day Of Action on their social media accounts today and to contact their congresspeople using links and scripts provided by Fight for the Future. Artists’ rights over their work have long been contested, yet nothing has brought the conversation to such a head as the advent of generative AI and its potential for corporate exploitation.”

Carnegie Mellon University: Addressing Copyright, Compensation Issues in Generative AI

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Carnegie Mellon University: Addressing Copyright, Compensation Issues in Generative AI. “Recent work by Carnegie Mellon University researchers tackles the thorny issues of copyright and compensation for generative AI models that create new images. A team in the School of Computer Science’s Generative Intelligence Lab collaborated with Adobe Research and the University of California, Berkeley, to develop two algorithms to help generative AI models take important steps on these issues. The first algorithm prevents these models from generating copyrighted materials, while the second develops a way to compensate human creators when models use their work to generate an image.”

Bill Willingham: Willingham Sends Fables Into the Public Domain

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Bill Willingham: Willingham Sends Fables Into the Public Domain. “As of now, 15 September 2023, the comic book property called Fables, including all related Fables spin-offs and characters, is now in the public domain. What was once wholly owned by Bill Willingham is now owned by everyone, for all time. It’s done, and as most experts will tell you, once done it cannot be undone. Take-backs are neither contemplated nor possible.”

Ars Technica: “Most notorious” illegal shadow library sued by textbook publishers [Updated]

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Ars Technica: “Most notorious” illegal shadow library sued by textbook publishers [Updated]. “Publishers suing include Cengage Learning, Macmillan Learning, McGraw Hill, and Pearson Education. They claimed that Library Genesis (aka Libgen) is operated by unknown individuals based outside the United States, who know that the shadow library is ‘one of the largest, most notorious, and far-reaching infringement operations in the world’ and intentionally violate copyright laws with ‘absolutely no legal justification for what they do.'”

Boing Boing: Typeface trolls shaking down users of Adobe’s font platform

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Boing Boing: Typeface trolls shaking down users of Adobe’s font platform. “Do you use a font through Adobe’s font platform? Is it Proxima Nova? Users of the typeface report being threatened by a foundry that claims to represent its creator, and Adobe isn’t taking calls. The copyright troll business model, where lawyers demand money from people who know that proving their innocence would cost even more, has come to the land of fancy fonts.”

Ars Technica: US rejects AI copyright for famous state fair-winning Midjourney art

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Ars Technica: US rejects AI copyright for famous state fair-winning Midjourney art. “On Tuesday, the US Copyright Office Review Board rejected copyright protection for an AI-generated artwork that won a Colorado State Fair art contest last year because it lacks human authorship required for registration, Reuters reports. The win, which was widely covered in the press at the time, ignited controversy over the ethics of AI-generated artwork.”