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If I record myself reading a copyrighted book and share the recording with some friends (for free), is that copyright infringement?

If so, can I claim fair use by, idk, dressing up in a funny outfit or something and turning the reading into a performance art piece, which I then record and share?

Is it copyright infringement to extract the audio from said recording of such a performance art piece and share that? There must be a legal way to do this...

In the same week OpenAI announces a model that is "good at creative writing", OpenAI warns that national security is on the line if AI companies can't use copyrighted texts for free and without restrictions.

I want to point out Project Stargate involving OpenAI was announced with 500 billion US dollar (and that's only one project).

The whole US book market has a revenue of 28 billion.

Yes, OpenAI could pay.

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

theguardian.com/technology/202

Ars Technica · OpenAI urges Trump: Either settle AI copyright debate or lose AI race to ChinaBy Ashley Belanger

Encore une attaque contre #internetarchive
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20
On Thursday, #musiclabels sought to add nearly 500 more sound recordings to a lawsuit accusing @InternetArchive #IA of mass #copyright infringement through its Great 78 Project, which seeks to digitize all 3 million three-minute recordings published on 78 revolutions-per-minute (RPM) records from about 1898 to the 1950s
#IloveInternetArchive
#soutienaInternetArchive

Ars Technica · Music labels will regret coming for the Internet Archive, sound historian saysBy Ashley Belanger

I always love a good initiative that circumvents or limits big-techs' horrible monopolism and arrogance and abuse of patents, copy-rights and whatever laws and rules that are never there to protect YOU, but always to protect capital!

So...

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#capitalism #monopoly technology #BigTech #copyright #patents #CrashCourse

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I love this idea. Use #LLMs to convert pieces of research literature into "knowledge units" that capture "most (~95%) factual knowledge" from the original works and yet avoid repetition or too-close paraphrase of the copyrighted language and thereby avoid infringement.
doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2502.19

See my related idea in this June 2023 Mastodon thread. fediscience.org/@petersuber/11

I believe the two ideas are compatible and compelling. I'd love to see concrete projects carry them forward. Very glad to see that the authors of the new arXiv piece "share #OpenSource tools for converting research documents into Knowledge Units."

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arXiv.orgProject Alexandria: Towards Freeing Scientific Knowledge from Copyright Burdens via LLMsPaywalls, licenses and copyright rules often restrict the broad dissemination and reuse of scientific knowledge. We take the position that it is both legally and technically feasible to extract the scientific knowledge in scholarly texts. Current methods, like text embeddings, fail to reliably preserve factual content, and simple paraphrasing may not be legally sound. We urge the community to adopt a new idea: convert scholarly documents into Knowledge Units using LLMs. These units use structured data capturing entities, attributes and relationships without stylistic content. We provide evidence that Knowledge Units: (1) form a legally defensible framework for sharing knowledge from copyrighted research texts, based on legal analyses of German copyright law and U.S. Fair Use doctrine, and (2) preserve most (~95%) factual knowledge from original text, measured by MCQ performance on facts from the original copyrighted text across four research domains. Freeing scientific knowledge from copyright promises transformative benefits for scientific research and education by allowing language models to reuse important facts from copyrighted text. To support this, we share open-source tools for converting research documents into Knowledge Units. Overall, our work posits the feasibility of democratizing access to scientific knowledge while respecting copyright.

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I keep seeing posts about Web pages disappearing, being backed up in extremis on the #Archive. And then other posts worrying about whether the Archive itself could one day disappear.

The obvious answer to this problem is that we need a #decentralized #Web archive. But where would this come from? There are both technical and legal considerations to take into account. I.e. how do we make it work, and how do we ensure it does not infringe #copyright laws? So here's a thought... \1

More than 1,000 musicians, have released a silent album in protest against #uk government plans to let #ai companies use copyright-protected work without permission, as a celebrity backlash builds against the proposals.

The recordings of dormant music studios and performance spaces, called Is This What We Want?, are being released as leading cultural figures warn livelihoods are under threat from proposed changes to #copyright #law.

#tech #technology

theguardian.com/technology/202

The Guardian · Kate Bush and Damon Albarn among 1,000 artists on silent AI protest albumBy Dan Milmo