#авторское-право
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EFF: Rewriting Copyright Law to Fight Generative AI Would Hurt Everyone
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed an amicus brief in In re OpenAI. It warns that narrowing fair use would harm researchers, journalists and ordinary internet users, while benefiting only powerful media and tech companies.
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Wikimedia Foundation warns a careless AI copyright ruling could hurt the open web
The nonprofit behind Wikipedia has filed an amicus brief in The New York Times' case against OpenAI and Microsoft. It proposes a compromise: training models should count as fair use, but regurgitating articles should not.
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Quad9 Pulls Out of France Over Court-Ordered Site Blocking
The free DNS resolver Quad9 will stop serving users in France on November 24. The move follows a French court order requiring it to block sites accused of infringing a sports broadcaster's copyrights.
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ChatGPT is signing fake New Yorker cartoons with real artists' names
ChatGPT generates New Yorker-style cartoons and adds the signatures of real cartoonists — producing drawings those artists never made.
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Spain Blocked Archive.today Without a Court Order
The web archive was placed on the list of «illegal» sites by a decision of the relevant commission at the Ministry of Culture—no judicial proceedings were required.
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Internal Microsoft Documents: AI Training Called “the Largest Theft of Labor in History”
Newly unsealed materials from The New York Times' lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft reveal that the companies' top executives, in private correspondence, called data collection “theft” and their own products an “existential threat” to publishers.
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Publishers and Agents Stake a Claim to Anthropic's Payouts — Authors Are Outraged
As compensation is paid out in the case over training AI on pirated books, some publishers and literary agents are demanding money that, in the authors' view, they have no right to.
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The Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft
Two more American publications accuse the AI developers of using their journalistic material to train neural networks. In the suit, generative AI is called “a snake eating its own tail.”
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Porn Producer Unmasks “John Doe”: The Pirate Turned Out to Be a Meta Executive
Strike 3 Holdings claims that the anonymous home torrent connection belongs to a director in the Reality Labs division, and it wants to tie his downloads to a $446 million lawsuit against Meta.
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Sony Music and Warner Sue Anthropic Over a “Brazen Campaign” to Steal Content
Major music publishers accuse the maker of Claude of large-scale piracy in training the model. The suit was filed in federal court in Northern California.
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Detective Musicians Take On AI Fakes in the Electronic Scene
A culture of public exposés is brewing in electronic dance music: producers are hunting down those who pass off Suno-generated tracks as their own work.
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Anna's Archive Owes $340M and Has Lost Domains, but Keeps Running
US courts have handed the shadow library hefty fines and seized several of its domains, yet the site remains reachable on zones beyond US jurisdiction.
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Anna's Archive Calls for Saving Rare Books Before They're Destroyed to Train AI
The largest shadow library claims AI companies are buying up, scanning and destroying paper books en masse, and is calling on volunteers to digitize this heritage before it's too late.
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In the EU, Copyright Does Not Protect AI-Generated Content
A short note from Mastodon is a reminder: in the European Union, the output of generative models apparently falls outside the scope of copyright protection.
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Pippa Pays Artists for Their Style — but Is That Enough to Reconcile Them with AI?
The startup Pippa offers illustrators royalties for every image and video it generates, promising “ethical” generative AI. Yet its models are still trained on data scraped from the web without the creators’ consent.
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EU Court Recognizes VPNs as a Legitimate Technical Tool
The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that VPN publishers and providers are not liable for copyright infringement by users who circumvent geographical restrictions.
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ChatGPT Stops Cloning the Style of Famous Writers
OpenAI has taught its chatbot to refuse outright imitation of authors' voices, offering instead to capture a “general feeling.” Behind this seemingly minor legal nuance lies a defense against copyright infringement suits.
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AI companies are destroying rare books for training data
A viral social-media thread and a 404 Media report describe the industrial-scale buying up and destruction of rare editions: they are scanned by high-speed machines that slice off the spines, and the originals are sent to the shredder.
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EU Court Recognizes VPNs as a Lawful Technical Tool
In a case about a digital edition of Anne Frank's diaries, the European Court of Justice ruled that VPN providers are not liable for users who circumvent geoblocking, and that the mere existence of VPNs does not render a site's protective measures ineffective.
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The Suno Breach: Data of 55 Million Users at Risk
The Have I Been Pwned service has gauged the scale of last year's attack on the music generator Suno: the intruder made off with the personal data of more than 55 million people. The company still hasn't disclosed the incident publicly.
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