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...
Sam Altman asks #Trump to grant #OpenAI blanket permissions to steal everyone's copyrighted works so he can train his #AI. He raises the threat of China AI dominance as the bogeyman.
https://futurism.com/openai-over-copyrighted-work
#copyright #FairUse #AIhype #SamAltman
@chartier
Aha, "fair use". To me, that means max 10 seconds of a music track, and half a page of a book or article. More == pay, like anyone else.
#AI #StopTheSteal #Copyright #plutocracy
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.
Whilst I'm talking #copyright today, it seems to me that the Trump administration has repudiated the AUSFTA by unilaterally imposing tariffs on Australian goods.
Which means we're now free to reverse the damaging 20-year extention to copyright terms the AUSFTA imposed:
"#OpenAI wants the US government to ensure it has access to any data it wants to train #GenAI models, and to stop foreign countries from trying to enforce #copyright rules against it and other American AI firms."
https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/13/openai_data_copyright/
Encore une attaque contre #internetarchive
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/03/music-labels-will-regret-coming-for-the-internet-archive-sound-historian-says
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
Meta is facing an AI copyright lawsuit in France brought by authors and publishers who are accusing the company of economic “parasitism.” Read more at @Techcrunch. #Meta #Instagram #Facebook #AI #Copyright #Tech #Technology https://flip.it/mSO6-8
Music labels will regret coming for the #InternetArchive, sound historian says - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/03/music-labels-will-regret-coming-for-the-internet-archive-sound-historian-says/ " Labels push to spike cost of Internet Archive fight over old 78s. " #copyright
When it comes to free software, do you side with Mario or Luigi?
https://anonsys.net/display/bf69967c-2967-cd97-ca39-077917417855
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
Fun type design and labor facts:
1. The first US design patent was a typeface patent.
https://typographica.org/on-typography/copyright-protection-of-typefaces/#comment-1418735
The US denies copyright protection for typefaces, but not font software (for now… https://typedrawers.com/discussion/comment/65603/#Comment_65603).
Foundries may be able to protect a type design with a patent, and a typeface name with a trademark.
https://www.commarts.com/columns/fonts-and-the-law
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.
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2502.19413
See my related idea in this June 2023 Mastodon thread. https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/110572463707435047
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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The Trade Union Congress has launched a manifesto to calling for the IP rights of writers, performers, educators and other creatives to be protected against abuse by tech companies.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/ai/unions-join-call-for-ai-regulation-to-protect-creatives
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.
#ai #art #artists #music #musicians #uk #creativity #computing #discovery #artificialintelligence #computers #media
#copyright #internet #computergenerated #england #britain #government #dailymail #newspapers #thesun #dailystar #thetimes
All credit to the UK’s media today… every newspaper united with the same headline and front page. Hopefully the government will get the message regarding AI, artists and copyright…
