DAMIAN COLLINS: No 10 must block AI giants attempting to steal our artists' work
5 months, 1 week ago

DAMIAN COLLINS: No 10 must block AI giants attempting to steal our artists' work

Daily Mail  

The creative industries are one of the UK’s greatest assets: drivers of innovation and growth, as well as a source of cultural power and wellbeing. At the beginning of last month, however, Google published a policy paper entitled: Unlocking The UK’s AI Potential. At the beginning of last month Google published a policy paper entitled: Unlocking The UK’s AI Potential Actress Julianne Moore was among those who signed a statement attacking the move as ‘an unjust threat’ to their livelihoods This TDM exception would allow Google to scrape the entire history of human creativity from the internet without permission and without payment. This week, as reported in the Mail, 13,500 creatives including Abba’s Bjorn Ulvaeus, actress Julianne Moore and writer Sir Kazuo Ishiguro signed a statement attacking the move as ‘an unjust threat’ to their livelihoods. Abba’s Bjorn Ulvaeus also signed the statement along with 13,500 other creatives In the aftermath of that sorry episode, the culture, media and sport select committee looked in depth at the relationship between AI and copyright.

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Anthropic scores win in AI copyright dispute with record labels
5 days, 18 hours ago

Anthropic scores win in AI copyright dispute with record labels

Live Mint  

Anthropic scored a win this week after a U.S. court denied an injunction that Universal Music Group and other record labels had sought to prevent the artificial-intelligence company from using copyrighted lyrics to train its AI models. Concord, ABKCO Music & Records, Universal Music and several subsidiaries sued Anthropic in October 2023, saying the company was harming them by using …

French publishers accuse Meta of AI copyright violations, File lawsuit
2 weeks, 5 days ago

French publishers accuse Meta of AI copyright violations, File lawsuit

India Today  

French publishers and authors said Wednesday they’re taking Meta to court, accusing the social media company of using their works without permission to train its artificial intelligence model. Three trade groups said they were launching legal action against Meta in a Paris court over what they said was the company’s “massive use of copyrighted works without authorization” to train its …

French publishers and authors sue Meta over copyright works used in AI training
2 weeks, 5 days ago

French publishers and authors sue Meta over copyright works used in AI training

Associated Press  

French publishers and authors said Wednesday they’re taking Meta to court, accusing the social media company of using their works without permission to train its artificial intelligence model. Three trade groups said they were launching legal action against Meta in a Paris court over what they said was the company’s “massive use of copyrighted works without authorization” to train its …

Stop AI pirates from stealing our hits, BRIT Awards stars plead
4 weeks, 2 days ago

Stop AI pirates from stealing our hits, BRIT Awards stars plead

Daily Mail  

Some of the biggest names in British music united at last night’s Brit awards to back a campaign to stop AI plundering the UK’s creative genius. Scottish star Tom Walker, who wrote and sang the hit Leave A Light On, summed up the protest saying: ‘Just leave it to musicians to make music.’ The Last Dinner Party were seen in …

Stephen Fry, Andrew Lloyd-Webber and Dua Lipa among artists to protest copyright law changes to AI
1 month ago

Stephen Fry, Andrew Lloyd-Webber and Dua Lipa among artists to protest copyright law changes to AI

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Actors, musicians and writers have united together in a campaign …

India’s AI investment, the budgetary push, the need for regulations
1 month ago

India’s AI investment, the budgetary push, the need for regulations

The Hindu  

The allocation of ₹2,000 crore to the IndiaAI mission in the Union Budget 2025-26 demonstrates India’s commitment to developing its artificial intelligence infrastructure. India’s focus and what needs to be done Circling back to India’s budgetary allocations, it is worth noting that almost 44% of the Budget’s allocation towards AI will be directed towards building domestic computing capabilities. In light …

UK creative industries launch campaign against AI tech firms’ content use
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1 month, 1 week ago

UK creative industries launch campaign against AI tech firms’ content use

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The UK’s creative industries have launched a new campaign to …

Don't let Big Tech steal UK's creative genius: Music, TV, film and publishing bosses back major Mail campaign to stop Labour letting US AI giants plunder their work for free
1 month, 1 week ago

Don't let Big Tech steal UK's creative genius: Music, TV, film and publishing bosses back major Mail campaign to stop Labour letting US AI giants plunder their work for free

Daily Mail  

Senior figures from the worlds of music, media and film last night backed a major new Daily Mail campaign to protect Britain's creative industries from the threat of AI. Sir Lucian Grainge, CBE, the chairman and CEO of Universal Music Group, gave his backing to the Mail's campaign Warner Music Group's CEO Robert Kyncl said the Government's proposals would 'undermine' …

AI companies are committing 'theft' on an 'industrial scale', claims Labour MP - who has written for TV series including New Tricks
1 month, 2 weeks ago

AI companies are committing 'theft' on an 'industrial scale', claims Labour MP - who has written for TV series including New Tricks

Daily Mail  

A Labour MP who has written for TV series including New Tricks said AI companies are committing 'theft' on an 'industrial scale', as she revealed her own work had been 'scraped'. Alison Hume is one of a number of Labour MPs raising concerns about the threat posed to creative industries by AI, amid accusations that the Government is pandering to …

Thomson Reuters scores early win in AI copyright battles in the US
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Thomson Reuters scores early win in AI copyright battles in the US

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — Thomson Reuters has won an early battle in court over the question of fair use in artificial intelligence-related copyright cases. The media and technology company filed a lawsuit against Ross Intelligence — a now-defunct legal research firm — in 2020, arguing they had used materials from Thomson Reuters’ own legal platform Westlaw to train an AI model …

Thomson Reuters Wins First Major AI Copyright Case in the US
55 years, 3 months ago

Thomson Reuters Wins First Major AI Copyright Case in the US

Wired  

Thomson Reuters has won the first major AI copyright case in the United States. “The copying of our content was not ‘fair use.’” The generative AI boom has led to a spate of additional legal fights about how AI companies can use copyrighted material, as many major AI tools were developed by training on copyrighted works including books, films, visual …

Human artists could disappear if copyright not protected from AI, MPs told
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Human artists could disappear if copyright not protected from AI, MPs told

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Allowing the erosion of copyright …

AI-assisted works can get copyright with enough human creativity, says US copyright office
2 months ago

AI-assisted works can get copyright with enough human creativity, says US copyright office

Associated Press  

Artists can copyright works they made with the help of artificial intelligence, according to a new report by the U.S. The nation’s copyright office, which sits in the Library of Congress and is not part of the executive branch, receives about half a million copyright applications per year covering millions of individual works. And while many of those decisions are …

AI copyright rules ‘threaten to rip rug from under’ artists, warns MP
2 months ago

AI copyright rules ‘threaten to rip rug from under’ artists, warns MP

The Independent  

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. According to a Government consultation pack, ministers could introduce an exception to copyright law for …

Paul McCartney warns AI law change could rip off artists
2 months ago

Paul McCartney warns AI law change could rip off artists

The Independent  

Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free Get our Now Hear This email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Beatles star Paul McCartney has …

Paul McCartney says he fears AI will rip off artists
2 months ago

Paul McCartney says he fears AI will rip off artists

Associated Press  

LONDON — Paul McCartney urged the British government not to make a change to copyright laws that he says could let artificial intelligence companies rip off artists. It shouldn’t be some tech giant somewhere.” Britain’s center-left Labour Party government says it wants to make the U.K. a world leader in AI. In December, it announced a consultation into how copyright …

Mark Zuckerberg approved Meta’s Llama team to steal copyrighted works to train AI, alleges lawsuit
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Mark Zuckerberg approved Meta’s Llama team to steal copyrighted works to train AI, alleges lawsuit

Firstpost  

The plaintiffs argue that Meta intentionally used copyrighted works without permission. Newly unsealed documents suggest that Zuckerberg himself approved the controversial decision despite internal concerns The lawsuit further alleges that Meta attempted to conceal its use of the pirated dataset by removing copyright information from the content. Image Credit: Meta In a striking development, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is accused …

AI-Fraid For Life
2 months, 3 weeks ago

AI-Fraid For Life

Deccan Chronicle  

Whistleblowers have often paid a heavy price for exposing the powerful, sometimes even with their lives. He says, “AI systems use large datasets, frequently from the internet, generating data privacy and copyright concerns. Some companies are integrating customers’ personal data with AI platforms to offer more personalised solutions, raising concerns about data integrity and protection, especially given India’s weak data …

The booming British industry that faces wipeout this year as we sleepwalk towards AI disaster
2 months, 4 weeks ago

The booming British industry that faces wipeout this year as we sleepwalk towards AI disaster

The Independent  

Don’t tell Liam and Noel, but the biggest entertainment event of 2025 won’t be their reunion, it’ll be the launch of Grand Theft Auto VI. “If we want GTA VI’s successor to be made in the UK, it’s vital we don’t surrender to AI,” he says. But the consultation’s objective is also “ensuring AI developers have access to high-quality material …

Every AI Copyright Lawsuit in the US, Visualized
55 years, 3 months ago

Every AI Copyright Lawsuit in the US, Visualized

Wired  

In May 2020, the media and technology conglomerate Thomson Reuters sued a small legal AI startup called Ross Intelligence, alleging that it had violated US copyright law by reproducing materials from Westlaw, Thomson Reuters’ legal research platform. But it’s now clear that the case—filed more than two years before the generative AI boom began—was the first strike in a much …

AI tech giants should not be subsidised by British creatives, Starmer signals
3 months, 1 week ago

AI tech giants should not be subsidised by British creatives, Starmer signals

The Independent  

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Dame Caroline Dinenage, the Conservative chairwoman of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee warned the …

In charts: How AI companies' data hunt is sparking copyright wars
3 months, 3 weeks ago

In charts: How AI companies' data hunt is sparking copyright wars

Live Mint  

Last month, news agency ANI filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, alleging unauthorized use of its content to train the generative artificial intelligence chatbot. AI companies, however, largely argue that their language models are built on publicly available data, which they contend is protected under fair use policy. Read this | OpenAI vs ANI: Why ‘hallucinations’ are …

ChatGPT, Meta and Google generative AI should be designated 'high-risk' under new laws, bipartisan committee recommends
4 months ago

ChatGPT, Meta and Google generative AI should be designated 'high-risk' under new laws, bipartisan committee recommends

ABC  

ChatGPT and Meta and Google's generative AI products should be designated "high risk" under dedicated artificial intelligence laws that could strictly regulate or even ban the most risky AI technologies. AI a high risk to democracy, workplace rights The committee specifically recommended that tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT, known as large language models, be "explicitly" included on a list of high-risk …

AIGCs' copyright question needs answering
8 months, 4 weeks ago

AIGCs' copyright question needs answering

China Daily  

The rapid development of emerging technologies such as big data, artificial intelligence and cloud computing has had a profound impact on people's daily lives as well as the legal system. It is especially important to determine whether AIGC fulfills the requirements for being protected by IP laws, such as whether the products generated by AI meet the conditions for protection …

AIGCs' copyright question needs answering
8 months, 4 weeks ago

AIGCs' copyright question needs answering

China Daily  

The rapid development of emerging technologies such as big data, artificial intelligence and cloud computing has had a profound impact on people's daily lives as well as the legal system. It is especially important to determine whether AIGC fulfills the requirements for being protected by IP laws, such as whether the products generated by AI meet the conditions for protection …

Everything On The Internet Can Be Used For Free To Train AI Models: Microsoft's AI Division CEO
8 months, 4 weeks ago

Everything On The Internet Can Be Used For Free To Train AI Models: Microsoft's AI Division CEO

ABP News  

The Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft's new artificial intelligence division, in a recent interview with CNBC, said that anything that is published on the internet ends up becoming a 'freeware' which can be copied and then used for the training of AI models. That’s been the understanding.” Microsoft Sidelines With AI Companies Against Publishers & News Organisations He then went …

Opinion: As AI is embraced, what happens to the artists whose work was stolen to build it?
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Opinion: As AI is embraced, what happens to the artists whose work was stolen to build it?

LA Times  

OpenAI announced Media Manager, a tool to be released next year that purportedly will help writers and other creators control how their work is used. Amid the hype surrounding Apple’s new deal with OpenAI, one issue has been largely papered over: The AI company’s foundational models are, and have always been, built atop the theft of creative professionals’ work. But …

How One Author Pushed the Limits of AI Copyright
11 months, 2 weeks ago

How One Author Pushed the Limits of AI Copyright

Wired  

Last October, I received an email with a hell of an opening line: “I fired a nuke at the US Copyright Office this morning.” The message was from Elisa Shupe, a 60-year-old retired US Army veteran who had just filed a copyright registration for a novel she’d recently self-published. The agency changed course earlier this month after Shupe appealed, granting …

Katy Perry, Billie Eilish, J Balvin and more lash out against ‘enormous’ AI threats that ‘sabotage creativity’
11 months, 4 weeks ago

Katy Perry, Billie Eilish, J Balvin and more lash out against ‘enormous’ AI threats that ‘sabotage creativity’

CNN  

CNN — More than 200 artists, including Billie Eilish, Kacey Musgraves, J Balvin, Ja Rule, Jon Bon Jovi, The Jonas Brothers, Katy Perry, Miranda Lambert and more, are speaking out against artificial intelligence-related threats in the music industry. In an open letter organized by the non-profit Artist Rights Alliance, notable names across the music business are calling on AI developers, …

Column: The AI industry has a battle-tested plan to keep using our content without paying for it
1 year, 2 months ago

Column: The AI industry has a battle-tested plan to keep using our content without paying for it

LA Times  

ChatGPT replicates New York Times articles nearly verbatim, a lawsuit by the newspaper claims. “It’s legally required.” Meanwhile, a fiery study recently published in IEEE Spectrum, co-written by the cognitive scientist and AI expert Gary Marcus and the film industry veteran Reid Southern, shows that Midjourney and Dall-E, two of the leading AI image generators, were trained on copyrighted material, …

Congress Wants Tech Companies to Pay Up for AI Training Data
55 years, 3 months ago

Congress Wants Tech Companies to Pay Up for AI Training Data

Wired  

Do AI companies need to pay for the training data that powers their generative AI systems? Today, at a Senate hearing on AI’s impact on journalism, lawmakers from both sides of the aisle agreed that OpenAI and others should pay media outlets for using their work in AI projects. Coffey claimed that AI companies “eviscerate the quality content they feed …

"Impossible": OpenAI admits ChatGPT can't exist without pinching copyrighted work
1 year, 2 months ago

"Impossible": OpenAI admits ChatGPT can't exist without pinching copyrighted work

Salon  

Artificial intelligence company OpenAI — currently valued at a minimum $80 billion — told the British Parliament on Monday that its content-generating ChatGPT product would be impossible to create without the company's use of human-created copyrighted work for free. As reported by the Telegraph, the company's remarks were submitted to a House of Lords subcommittee which is weighing possible changes …

Meta used copyrighted books for AI training despite its own lawyers' warnings, authors allege
1 year, 3 months ago

Meta used copyrighted books for AI training despite its own lawyers' warnings, authors allege

The Hindu  

Meta Platforms' lawyers had warned it about the legal perils of using thousands of pirated books to train its AI models, but the company did it anyway, according to a new filing in a copyright infringement lawsuit initially brought this summer. The new filing late on Monday night consolidates two lawsuits brought against the Facebook and Instagram owner by comedian …

The Generative AI Copyright Fight Is Just Getting Started
1 year, 3 months ago

The Generative AI Copyright Fight Is Just Getting Started

Wired  

The biggest fight of the generative AI revolution is headed to the courtroom—and no, it’s not about the latest boardroom drama at OpenAI. AI builders have largely assumed that using copyrighted material as training data is perfectly legal under the umbrella of “fair use”—after all, they’re only borrowing the work to extract statistical signals from it, not trying to pass …

Untangling The Mysteries Of AI-Generated Content And Copyright
1 year, 3 months ago

Untangling The Mysteries Of AI-Generated Content And Copyright

Live Law  

The combination of human ingenuity and cutting-edge technology has given birth to a new frontier of innovation in the digital age: Artificial Intelligence. It is important to emphasise that the legal perspectives on AI-generated content ownership in India are currently theoretical, given the copyright law contains no explicit provisions addressing AI. Lack of law, several legal perspectives on AI-generated content …

‘Please regulate AI:' Artists push for U.S. copyright reforms but tech industry says not so fast
1 year, 4 months ago

‘Please regulate AI:' Artists push for U.S. copyright reforms but tech industry says not so fast

Associated Press  

Country singers, romance novelists, video game artists and voice actors are appealing to the U.S. government for relief — as soon as possible — from the threat that artificial intelligence poses to their livelihoods. But, Perlmutter asks, as humans feed content into AI systems and give instructions to influence what comes out, “is there a point at which there’s enough …

Column: AI investors say they’ll go broke if they have to pay for copyrighted works. Don’t believe it
1 year, 4 months ago

Column: AI investors say they’ll go broke if they have to pay for copyrighted works. Don’t believe it

LA Times  

President Biden signing an executive order on artificial intelligence, including a government study of its copyright implications, as Vice President Kamala Harris looks on. — Andreessen Horowitz They say that if they’re forced to pay fees to copyright holders simply for using their creative works to “train” AI chatbots and other such programs, most AI firms might be forced out …

AI and the issue of human-centricity in copyright law
1 year, 4 months ago

AI and the issue of human-centricity in copyright law

The Hindu  

The Executive Order in the United States, issued by the Biden administration on October 30, on ‘Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence ’, illustrates the changing attitude of global leaders towards AI regulation. Copyright Office thus far vis-à-vis work created autonomously by an AI system. In a document entitled ‘Copyright Registration Guidance: Works Containing Material Generated by Artificial Intelligence’, released …

AI is causing panic for authors. Now the courts are involved
1 year, 5 months ago

AI is causing panic for authors. Now the courts are involved

LA Times  

When novelist Douglas Preston first started messing around with ChatGPT, he gave the AI software a challenge: Could it write an original poem based on a character from some of his books? “That was a very disturbing feeling,” Preston said, “not unlike coming home and finding that someone’s been in your house and taken things.” Those worries led Preston to …

Books by J.K. Rowling, Amitav Ghosh part of 183,000-book dataset used for AI training: Report
1 year, 6 months ago

Books by J.K. Rowling, Amitav Ghosh part of 183,000-book dataset used for AI training: Report

The Hindu  

Books by famous authors such as J.K. Rowling, Amitav Ghosh, Rupi Kaur, and Neil Gaiman are part of a dataset of pirated books known as Books3, which has been used by large companies to train their generative AI models, according to a report by The Atlantic. The news publication made available a searchable database of the dataset called ‘Books3,’ which …

‘Game of Thrones’ creator and other authors sue ChatGPT-maker OpenAI for copyright infringement
1 year, 6 months ago

‘Game of Thrones’ creator and other authors sue ChatGPT-maker OpenAI for copyright infringement

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — John Grisham, Jodi Picoult and George R.R. In papers filed Tuesday in federal court in New York, the authors alleged “flagrant and harmful infringements of plaintiffs’ registered copyrights” and called the ChatGPT program a “massive commercial enterprise” that is reliant upon “systematic theft on a mass scale.” The suit was organized by the Authors Guild and also …

OpenAI defends alleged use of novels in training data sets for “innovation”
1 year, 6 months ago

OpenAI defends alleged use of novels in training data sets for “innovation”

The Hindu  

OpenAI has defended the use of copyrighted materials such as novels in data sets for training large language models, claiming that fair use protects such innovation. In a court filing dated August 28, OpenAI responded to the suit filed by authors Paul Tremblay and Mona Awad, who claimed that the AI startup used their copyrighted work to train ChatGPT. Authors …

UK government urged to protect songs and books from ‘lasting harm’ of AI mining
1 year, 7 months ago

UK government urged to protect songs and books from ‘lasting harm’ of AI mining

The Independent  

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Jamie Njoku-Goodwin, chief executive of British trade body UK Music, has warned of the potential …

AI bots need consent to use our material, say news groups
1 year, 7 months ago

AI bots need consent to use our material, say news groups

The Hindu  

Artificial intelligence firms must ask for permission before using copyrighted text and images to generate content, a consortium of news groups said on Wednesday. Media organisations including AFP, Getty Images and the Associated Press said in an open letter that AI tools risk shattering their business models, flooding the web with misinformation and breaking copyright laws. AI tools like chatbot …

James Patterson, Margaret Atwood among thousands of writers urging AI companies to honor copyrights
1 year, 8 months ago

James Patterson, Margaret Atwood among thousands of writers urging AI companies to honor copyrights

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy James Patterson, Suzanne Collins and …

James Patterson, Margaret Atwood among thousands of writers urging AI companies to honor copyrights
1 year, 8 months ago

James Patterson, Margaret Atwood among thousands of writers urging AI companies to honor copyrights

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — James Patterson, Suzanne Collins and Margaret Atwood are among thousands of writers endorsing an open letter from the Authors Guild urging AI companies to obtain permission before incorporating copyrighted work into their technologies. “Millions of copyrighted books, articles, essays, and poetry provide the ‘food’ for AI systems, endless meals for which there has been no bill,” the …

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