Human artists could disappear if copyright not protected from AI, MPs told
1 month, 2 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 rules to enable AI models to be trained on artists’ material could see human artists disappear and may damage culture, MPs have been told. Composer Max Richter said the training of AI models of copyrighted created material that could enable it to replicate human artists would “impoverish” human creators and lead to a “vanilla-isation” of music culture. If we allow the erosion of copyright, which is how value is created in the music sector, then we’re going to be in a position where there won’t be artists in the future Max Richter Mr Richter told MPs that there was currently “nothing” he could do to stop AI models generating a piece of music which sounds “uncannily” like him. “We’ve been looking at how you build AI models – how companies like Google and OpenAI – they require huge amounts of data to put out these models,” he said.

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A Case For Harmonizing Gen AI And The Copyright Regime
1 day, 20 hours ago

A Case For Harmonizing Gen AI And The Copyright Regime

Live Law  

Globally, Generative AI developers are facing lawsuits from publishers, and India is no exception. Therefore, legal and policy questions in these matters will likely shift from 'AI-generated content being infringing' to whether the AI developer used a 'legally obtained copy' to train the model. Most importantly, we should introduce a fair dealing right under our copyright laws for AI training. …

French publishers accuse Meta of AI copyright violations, File lawsuit
1 week, 6 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
1 week, 6 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 …

Music labels’ copyright fight reflects broader challenges with Open AI
2 weeks, 2 days ago

Music labels’ copyright fight reflects broader challenges with Open AI

Live Mint  

The copyright suit filed by top music labels such as Saregama, T-Series and Sony, concerned about the unauthorized use of their sound recordings by Microsoft-backed Open AI, reflects the broader challenges posed to India’s music business. OpenAI’s use of copyrighted music strikes at the very heart of intellectual property rights administration, and without proper authorization from content or copyright owners, …

Stop AI pirates from stealing our hits, BRIT Awards stars plead
3 weeks, 3 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 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 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, 1 week 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 …

MPs: Ministers must give protections to creative sector amid AI copyright fears
1 month, 1 week ago

MPs: Ministers must give protections to creative sector amid AI copyright fears

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. “We can enable a world where much of this value is transferred to a handful …

Thomson Reuters scores early win in AI copyright battles in the US
1 month, 1 week 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 …

AI-assisted works can get copyright with enough human creativity, says US copyright office
1 month, 3 weeks 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
1 month, 3 weeks 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 …

‘AI Shouldn’t Rip Off Artists’, Beatles Singer Paul McCartney Urges British Govt To Protect Creative Industry
1 month, 3 weeks ago

‘AI Shouldn’t Rip Off Artists’, Beatles Singer Paul McCartney Urges British Govt To Protect Creative Industry

ABP News  

Artificial intelligence has somehow created a sense of fear in artists whether it will rip them off in the long run. During a recent BBC interview, McCartney said, “AI is a great thing, but it shouldn’t rip creative people off Make sure you protect the creative thinkers, the creative artists, or you’re not going to have them. McCartney’s concerns about …

Paul McCartney warns AI law change could rip off artists
1 month, 3 weeks 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 …

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

Ethical concerns around AI are genuine, need scrutiny: Experts
3 months ago

Ethical concerns around AI are genuine, need scrutiny: Experts

New Indian Express  

BENGALURU: The ethical concerns around Artificial Intelligence are serious and genuine and are not being addressed to the extent they should be. The perceived benefits of AI and Large Language Models at the moment are more in the nature of conjectures and need backing with solid evidence of impact on the ground, especially when it comes to under-served and marginal …

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

Who Owns Copyright In Generated Arts Created By AI? Justice Gautam Patel Highlights New Legal Challenges
3 months, 1 week ago

Who Owns Copyright In Generated Arts Created By AI? Justice Gautam Patel Highlights New Legal Challenges

Live Law  

Former Bombay High Court Judge Justice Gautam Patel highlighted the need for legislation to regulate 'Deepfakes' and flagged the challenges that may arise in addressing the issues with them. The first machine goes to correct the flaws using its generative power and bounces back to the test machine, this adversarial process, not very different from what one sees in law …

In charts: How AI companies' data hunt is sparking copyright wars
3 months, 2 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 …

Mint Explainer: The OpenAI case and what’s at stake for AI and copyright in India
4 months ago

Mint Explainer: The OpenAI case and what’s at stake for AI and copyright in India

Live Mint  

The first legal challenge to generative artificial intelligence models in India surfaced last week when news agency ANI filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in the Delhi High Court alleging copyright infringement. “This case asks an Indian court to decide whether the unauthorized scraping and use of copyrighted content for AI training constitutes copyright infringement and whether AI outputs based on …

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

Everything On The Internet Can Be Used For Free To Train AI Models: Microsoft's AI Division CEO
8 months, 3 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 …

Art meets invasion: Inside the face-off with AI
9 months ago

Art meets invasion: Inside the face-off with AI

Hindustan Times  

Work on it began a bit before that point, in the 1980s, when a prolific musician named David Cope was tasked with creating the music for an opera. In it, the artists urge AI developers, technology companies, platforms and digital music services to refrain from employing AI in ways that undermine and diminish the rights of human creators. Earlier this …

Opinion: As AI is embraced, what happens to the artists whose work was stolen to build it?
9 months, 1 week 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 …

AI and streaming threaten creative workers’ livelihoods, MPs say
11 months, 2 weeks ago

AI and streaming threaten creative workers’ livelihoods, MPs say

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. We are concerned that the status quo simply favours AI developers, given creators’ concerns that …

Big Tech in ‘underground’ race to license archives that will train Artificial Intelligence
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Big Tech in ‘underground’ race to license archives that will train Artificial Intelligence

The Hindu  

At its peak in the early 2000s, Photobucket was the world’s top image-hosting site. CEO Ted Leonard, who runs the 40-strong company out of Edwards, Colorado, said he is in talks with multiple tech companies to license Photobucket’s 13 billion photos and videos to be used to train generative AI models that can produce new content in response to text …

Miranda Lambert, Billie Eilish, Nicki Minaj submit letter to AI developers to honor artists’ rights
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Miranda Lambert, Billie Eilish, Nicki Minaj submit letter to AI developers to honor artists’ rights

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — Stevie Wonder, Miranda Lambert, Billie Eilish, Nicki Minaj, Peter Frampton, Katy Perry, Smokey Robinson and J Balvin are just some of the over 200 names featured on a new open letter submitted by the Artist Rights Alliance non-profit, calling on artificial intelligence tech companies, developers, platforms, digital music services and platforms to stop using AI “to infringe …

Katy Perry, Billie Eilish, J Balvin and more lash out against ‘enormous’ AI threats that ‘sabotage creativity’
11 months, 3 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, …

Will artists lead the revolution against AI?
1 year ago

Will artists lead the revolution against AI?

Live Mint  

I doubt there is any form of love comparable to what an artist has for her art. On to Mint’s best journalism from this week: Executives of India’s largest software exporter Tata Consultancy Services huddled up in Abu Dhabi last week to discuss the company’s future. Mint’s startup and new economy editor Ranjani Raghavan along with Sneha Shah take a …

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, 2 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 …

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 …

Researchers warn we could run out of data to train AI by 2026.
1 year, 4 months ago

Researchers warn we could run out of data to train AI by 2026.

The Hindu  

As artificial intelligence reaches the peak of its popularity, researchers have warned the industry might be running out of training data – the fuel that runs powerful AI systems. Low-quality data such as social media posts or blurry photographs are easy to source, but aren’t sufficient to train high-performing AI models. In a paper published last year, a group of …

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 …

Media groups to meet Culture Secretary over risk of AI using copyright material
1 year, 5 months ago

Media groups to meet Culture Secretary over risk of AI using copyright material

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 Media groups are set to meet the Culture Secretary over …

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 …

Opinion: How AI systems are scooping up Hollywood writers and actors' work
1 year, 6 months ago

Opinion: How AI systems are scooping up Hollywood writers and actors' work

LA Times  

Members and supporters of SAG-AFTRA and the Writers Guild of America in a flash mob on the picket line at Fox Studios on Aug. 11. They warn that the writers’ room may soon become a single writer’s desk — with one writer being hired to polish up a first draft produced by a ChatGPT or other large language systems. Despite …

Visual artists fight back against AI companies for repurposing their work
1 year, 6 months ago

Visual artists fight back against AI companies for repurposing their work

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Kelly McKernan’s acrylic and watercolor paintings are bold and vibrant, often featuring feminine figures rendered in bright greens, blues, pinks and purples. The Nashville-based McKernan, 37, who creates both fine art and digital illustrations, soon learned that companies were feeding artwork into AI systems used to “train” image-generators — something that once sounded like a weird sci-fi …

UK government urged to protect songs and books from ‘lasting harm’ of AI mining
1 year, 6 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-generated art cannot receive copyrights, U.S. court says
1 year, 7 months ago

AI-generated art cannot receive copyrights, U.S. court says

The Hindu  

A work of art created by artificial intelligence without any human input cannot be copyrighted under U.S. law, a U.S. court in Washington, D.C., has ruled. Only works with human authors can receive copyrights, U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell said on Friday, affirming the Copyright Office's rejection of an application filed by computer scientist Stephen Thaler on behalf of his …

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