“Long before generative AI, copyright holders warned that new technologies for reading and analyzing information would destroy creativity. Internet search engines, they argued, were infringement machines—tools that copied copyrighted works at scale without permission. As they had with earlier information technologies like the photocopier and the VCR, copyright owners sued.”
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/search-engines-ai-and-long-fight-over-fair-use
Search Engines, AI, And The Long Fight Over Fair Use www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026… #AI #copyright #FairUse
Search Engines, AI, And The Long Fight Over Fair Use https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/search-engines-ai-and-long-fight-over-fair-use #AI #copyright #FairUse
NVIDIA Contacted Pirate Library for AI Training Data After Being Warned Content Was Illegal, Lawsuit Claims
#NVIDIA #BigTech #AI #Copyright #AITraining #Piracy #LLMs #FairUse #AIEthics #GenAI #AICopyrightDisputes
The legal system isn't the great equalizer anymore. It's a system that's rigged to transfer economic advantage from the unprivileged to the wealthy, aggravating the insane levels of wealth inequity that already exists in the world. And that's why it's #piracy when you or I do it, but #fairuse when the insanely rich do it!
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ICYMI, Anna's Archive is a collection of freely and often illegally distributed copyrighted literary and academic materials. It's meant to overcome the legal hurdles that make knowledge increasingly unaffordable to the ordinary folks.
What was NVIDIA's defense? It's fair-use, since the material becomes nothing more than statistical parameters! But considering how these parameters will fetch them billions of dollars, I seriously doubt that this is what #fairuse policy was designed for.
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"Separate the art from the artist"? That's hard while the artist still earns a royalty and spends it on harassing critics in court or promoting intolerance.
"The Death of the Author"? The author's heirs aren't dead and can keep a biography from being published. Copyright encourages intentionalism.
#intentionalism #copyright #FairUse #DeathOfTheAuthor #RolandBarthes #LiteraryCriticism
The file with deletion request was on Wikimedia Commons where no fair use rule applies. The other file is on English Wikipedia where they use the fair use rule. Two different project with different rule sets. That George Vancouver statue would have been deleted on Wikimedia Commons also (as there is no FOP in Washington).
Doch nur auswendig gelernt: Forscher testen Wiedergabe von KI-Trainingsdaten | iX Magazin https://www.heise.de/news/Autocomplete-Grosse-Sprachmodelle-koennen-Trainingsdaten-wortwoertlich-wiederholen-11139290.html #Urheberrecht #copyright #ArtificialIntelligence #FairUse
Curious how they will address provenance, licensing, & long-term preservation. Hope they ensure talks around blockchain/ tokenization emphasize governance, transparency, & avoid hype/ misuse.
Blackrock is striving to be leading digital asset manager by 2030, starting up tokenization services that turn traditional assets like ETFs/ property/ art into a token that can be traded, I'm worried about misuse due to investor involvement.
Droit d’auteur vs IA : 2026, l’année de tous les verdicts aux Etats-Unis (1/2) https://actualitte.com/a/Xv79cly5
#IA #proces #fairuse #bilan #2026 #verdicts #auteurs #editeurs #technologie
Fair Use Is A Right. Ignoring It Has Consequences.
I am not fan of AI, but attacks on AI risk having fair use and user rights as collateral damage.
Publishers want to expand copyright and tighten their control, all for more profit, and that is exactly what they are doing here.
Artificial Intelligence, Copyright, and the Fight for User Rights: 2025 in Review
#Creativity&Innovation #FairUse
Online Gaming’s Final Boss: The Copyright Bully
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/online-gamings-final-boss-copyright-bully
#Creativity&Innovation #FairUse
YouTube Removes AI Movie Trailer Channels ‘Screen Culture’ and ‘KH Studio’ Amid Legal Pressure
#YouTube #Disney #AI #Copyright #Deepfakes #Google #ScreenCulture #GenerativeAI #Sora #OpenAI #ContentCreators #FairUse #IntellectualProperty #TechLaw #FakeTrailers
#FairUse is a Right. Ignoring It Has Consequences.
Fair use is not just an excuse to copy—it’s a pillar of online speech protection, and disregarding it in order to lash out at a critic should have serious consequences. That’s what we told a federal court in Channel 781 News v. Waltham Community Access Corporation, our case fighting #copyright abuse on behalf of citizen #journalists.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/fair-use-right-ignoring-it-has-consequences
Fair Use is a Right. Ignoring It Has Consequences.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/fair-use-right-ignoring-it-has-consequences
Update on false copyright claims: both Content ID claims dropped after appeal.
Reminder that “copyright trolls” often rely on selective, automated claims and creator fatigue. If your content is fair use, document everything and escalate. It works.
#ContentID #CreatorRights #FairUse #YouTube
KI-Urheberrechtsstreit eskaliert: #OpenAI muss Chatprotokolle offenlegen | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/KI-Modelle-New-York-Times-klagt-gegen-Perplexity-Meta-schliesst-Lizenzabkommen-11104846.html #ArtificialIntelligence #Urheberrecht #copyright #FairUse
