Is it too expensive to have a reasonable fair-use regulation? Getty Images sued Stability AI but so far the only lesson learned is that it's simply too expensive to fight every copyright battle, these days.
https://giuseppevizzari.github.io/posts/2025/6/It-is-too-expensive
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An #Elderly #Blind #Dementia-inflicted person needed interviews for their bookclub book downloaded onto a thumb drive and played in a long shuffled loop on their older Smart TV.
Their assistant used yt-dlp, a command line / console program to download Youtube videos of interviews/reviews and, in a Firefox browser, used the extension called Video Download Helper to download radio interviews/reviews.
Getty Images ‘Spending Millions’ Fighting Stability AI in Court Over Copyright https://petapixel.com/2025/05/29/getty-images-spending-millions-fighting-stability-ai-in-court-over-copyright/ #aicopyright #craigpeters #gettyimages #stabilityai #aitraining #copyright #fairuse #News #Law
“Extraordinarily expensive”: Costs force Getty to pick its AI legal battles https://arstechni.ca/eXJ6 #ArtificialIntelligence #imagegenerators #StableDiffusion #generativeai #GettyImages #StabilityAI #copyright #fairuse #Policy #AI
Breaking Down the USCO Report on Generative #AI #Training and Re:Create’s “Non-Takeaways” (via Re:Create) https://www.infodocket.com/2025/05/28/ai-roundup-a-new-kind-of-digital-swarm-has-arrived-ai-bots-tunnelling-locusts-further-reflections-on-the-oapen-library-and-doabs-response-time-ottawa-rushes-to-build-its/ #copyright #fairuse
"Technology should only ever do exactly what we have explicitly given it our consent to do"
This blog post 👉🏻 https://www.anildash.com//2025/05/27/2025-05-27-internet-of-consent/ by @anildash is just superb! 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻
And the last sentence, a massively poignant call-to-action that won't leave people indifferent, specially, those who can't understand #ConsentMatters
I wish I had a better link for this but its definitely worth reading and getting the copyright/AI report.
#ai #fairuse #copyright #uscopyright
Trump Just Fired the Head of the US Copyright Office Over a Bombshell AI Report
https://www.marketingaiinstitute.com/blog/trump-us-copyright-office-ai
SC says ringtone previews are legal! 20-second samples help buyers decide and fall under fair use. No copyright violation here. #FairUse #TechNews
Read more: https://www.gameops.net/2025/05/supreme-court-says-listening-to-ringtone-previews-is-fine.html
Copyright Office head fired after reporting AI training isn’t always fair use – Ars Technica
“Power grab”
Cops scuffle with Trump picks at Copyright Office after AI report stuns tech industry.
Ashley Belanger – May 12, 2025 12:37 PM |
A man holds a flag that reads “Shame” outside the Library of Congress on May 12, 2025 in Washington, DC. On May 8th, President Donald Trump fired Carla Hayden, the head of the Library of Congress, and Shira Perlmutter, the head of the US Copyright Office, just days after. Credit: Kayla Bartkowski / Staff | Getty Images NewsA day after the US Copyright Office dropped a bombshell pre-publication report challenging artificial intelligence firms’ argument that all AI training should be considered fair use, the Trump administration fired the head of the Copyright Office, Shira Perlmutter—sparking speculation that the controversial report hastened her removal.
Tensions have apparently only escalated since. Now, as industry advocates decry the report as overstepping the office’s authority, social media posts on Monday described an apparent standoff at the Copyright Office between Capitol Police and men rumored to be with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
A source familiar with the matter told Wired that the men were actually “Brian Nieves, who claimed he was the new deputy librarian, and Paul Perkins, who said he was the new acting director of the Copyright Office, as well as acting Registrar,” but it remains “unclear whether the men accurately identified themselves.” A spokesperson for the Capitol Police told Wired that no one was escorted off the premises or denied entry to the office.
Perlmutter’s firing followed Donald Trump’s removal of Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, who, NPR noted, was the first African American to hold the post. Responding to public backlash, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed that the firing was due to “quite concerning things that she had done at the Library of Congress in the pursuit of DEI and putting inappropriate books in the library for children.”
Source Links: Copyright Office head fired after reporting AI training isn’t always fair use – Ars Technica
#AITraining #ArsTechnica #FairUse #Fired #Head #Librarian #Trump #USCopyrightOffice
We’re participating in Fair Use Fridays to highlight the value of #FairUse to the U.S. economy and its importance to copyright law for the digital age. This week we’re reflecting on Supreme Court Justice David Souter’s significant #copyright legacy, including an important fair use ruling. [https://project-disco.org/intellectual-property/justice-souters-copyright-legacy/
DisCo is participating in @recreateco's #FairUseFriday. Our newest post from guest author Jonathan Band looks back on the #Copyright legacy of Supreme Court Justice David Souter and his part in the development of #FairUse. https://project-disco.org/intellectual-property/justice-souters-copyright-legacy/
The U.S. Copyright Office’s Draft Report on AI Training Errs on Fair Use
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/us-copyright-offices-draft-report-ai-training-errs-fair-use
#Creativity&Innovation #FairUse
"The [#CopyrightOffice] #AIreport applies the law of #fairuse to different kinds of #AItraining and usage, concluding that although outcomes might differ case by case, “making commercial use of vast troves of #copyrightedworks to produce expressive content that competes with them in existing markets, especially where this is accomplished through illegal access, goes beyond established fair use boundaries.”"
https://www.theverge.com/politics/666179/maga-elon-musk-sacks-copyright-office-perlmutter
Trump feuert Copyright-Chefin 2025! ⚖️ Was bedeutet das für KI?
Brisanter Fair-Use-Bericht
Debatte um KI & Urheberrecht
Milliarden-Folgen für Unternehmen
#ai #ki #artificialintelligence #Urheberrecht #FairUse #Trump
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https://kinews24.de/ki-training-urheberrecht-trump-feuert-copyright-chefin/
#Copyright Office head fired after reporting #AI training isn’t always fair use
#fairuse
Copyright Office head fired after reporting AI training isn’t always fair use https://arstechni.ca/DEhPM #ArtificialIntelligence #USCopyrightOffice #generativeai #DonaldTrump #copyright #chatbots #fairuse #Policy #openai #AI
The @CopyrightOffice has released a pre-publication version of the third and final part of its Copyright and Artificial Intelligence study. CCIA has issued a statement criticizing the Office for its weak analysis and for recommending an overly aggressive narrowing of the #FairUse doctrine. https://ccianet.org/news/2025/05/ccias-response-to-copyright-office-ai-study/
#Copyright Office thinks AI companies sometimes stole content-The Register
Some see an action to benefit Elon. The #WhiteHouse sees an agency obsessed with #DEI
The head of the US Copyright Office has reportedly been fired, the day after agency concluded that builders of AI models use of copyrighted material went beyond existing doctrines of fair use.
The office’s opinion on fair use came in a draft of the third part of its report on copyright & #AI.
#musk #fairuse
https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/12/us_copyright_office_ai_copyright/
"But making commercial use of vast troves of copyrighted works to produce expressive content that competes with them in existing markets, especially where this is accomplished through illegal access, goes beyond established fair use boundaries."
United States Copyright Office, Copyright and Artificial Intelligence, Part 3: Generative AI Training
But I do wonder if #GenAI has crossed the #Berne Convention #3StepTest threshold of being so actively destructive of artistic livelihoods that training exceptions (aka #FairUse) should be greatly restricted. I know @technollama.bsky.social (whose opinion I greatly respect) disagrees! /end
