Category: Copyright
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Photojournalists Sign Open Letter Urging Meta Not to Use Their Photos for AI Training | PetaPixel
Photojournalists Sign Open Letter Urging Meta Not to Use Their Photos for AI Training Read the letter here. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2024/06/13/photojournalists-sign-open-letter-urging-meta-not-to-use-their-photos-for-ai-training/ The letter was organized by Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Daniel Etter and signed by dozens of photographers, journalists, and curators. https://petapixel.com/2024/06/13/photojournalists-sign-open-letter-urging-meta-not-to-use-their-photos-for-ai-training/
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Google’s A.I. Search Leaves Publishers Scrambling – The New York Times
Google’s A.I. Search Leaves Publishers Scrambling Since Google overhauled its search engine, publishers have tried to assess the danger to their brittle business models while calling for government intervention. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/01/technology/google-ai-search-publishers.html “It potentially chokes off the original creators of the content,” Mr. Pine said. The feature, AI Overviews, felt like another step toward generative A.I.…
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Supreme Court: There’s No ‘Time Limit’ on Copyright Infringement Claims * TorrentFreak
https://torrentfreak.com/supreme-court-theres-no-time-limit-on-copyright-infringement-claims-240510/ Copyright holders can claim damages for copyright infringements that occurred years or even decades ago, the U.S. Supreme Court has clarified. In a majority decision, the Court rejected the lower court’s argument that there’s a three-year time limit for damages. Older claims are fair game, as long as the lawsuit is filed within three…
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How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I. – The New York Times
How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I. OpenAI, Google and Meta ignored corporate policies, altered their own rules and discussed skirting copyright law as they sought online information to train their newest artificial intelligence systems. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/06/technology/tech-giants-harvest-data-artificial-intelligence.html At Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, managers, lawyers and engineers last year discussed buying…
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Richard Prince to Pay Photographers Over $650,000 In Copyright Lawsuits | PetaPixel
Richard Prince to Pay Photographers Over $650,000 In Copyright Lawsuits But, Prince made no admission of infringement. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2024/01/29/richard-prince-to-pay-photographers-over-650000-in-copyright-lawsuits/ For his New Portraits series, Prince appropriated images from users on Instagram, but he also used images that belonged to professional photographers without permission — selling them for up to $100,000 each. https://petapixel.com/2024/01/29/richard-prince-to-pay-photographers-over-650000-in-copyright-lawsuits/
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Inside the News Industry’s Uneasy Negotiations With OpenAI – The New York Times
Inside the News Industry’s Uneasy Negotiations With OpenAI Several major publishers have been in talks to license content to the creator of ChatGPT, but agreement on the price and terms has been elusive. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/29/business/media/media-openai-chatgpt.html “I think part of the reason news organizations are now looking so carefully at OpenAI is because they have 20…
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The Times Sues OpenAI and Microsoft Over A.I.’s Use of Copyrighted Work – The New York Times
The Times Sues OpenAI and Microsoft Over A.I.’s Use of Copyrighted Work Millions of articles from The New York Times were used to train chatbots that now compete with it, the lawsuit said. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/27/business/media/new-york-times-open-ai-microsoft-lawsuit.html The suit does not include an exact monetary demand. But it says the defendants should be held responsible for “billions…
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Here’s Why AI Companies Think They Can Use Photographers’ Work Without Compensation | PetaPixel
Here’s Why AI Companies Think They Can Use Photographers’ Work Without Compensation Some say it would be of “very little benefit.” via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/11/06/heres-why-ai-companies-think-they-can-use-photographers-work-without-compensation/ After the U.S. Copyright Office put out a call for opinions on how copyright should work with AI-generated material, the world’s biggest AI companies had a lot to say.
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Photo Agencies Publish Open Letter Demanding AI Copyright Protection | PetaPixel
Photo Agencies Publish Open Letter Demanding AI Copyright Protection Getty Images is among the signatories. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/08/10/photo-agencies-publish-open-letter-demanding-ai-copyright-protection/ The world’s leading photo agencies and photographer associations have co-signed an open letter calling for legal protections against artificial intelligence (AI).
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Instagram Beats Photographers’ Copyright Case Over Embedded Images | PetaPixel
Instagram Beats Photographers’ Copyright Case Over Embedded Images Instagram dodges again. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/07/19/instagram-beats-photographers-copyright-case-over-embedded-images/ In 2021, photographers Alexis Hunley and Matthew Brauer filed a class action lawsuit against Instagram in federal court.
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Generative AI is a Minefield for Copyright Law | PetaPixel
Generative AI is a Minefield for Copyright Law In 2022, an AI-generated work of art won the Colorado State Fair’s art competition. The artist, Jason Allen, had used Midjourney – a generative AI system via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/06/18/generative-ai-is-a-minefield-for-copyright-law/ Should the artists whose art was scraped to train the models be compensated? Who owns the images that…
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Supreme Court Rules Andy Warhol’s Prince Art is Copyright Infringement | PetaPixel
Supreme Court Rules Andy Warhol’s Prince Art is Copyright Infringement Photographers Win! via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/05/18/supreme-court-rules-andy-warhols-prince-art-is-copyright-infringement/ The United States Supreme Court has released its opinion on The Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith case, finding in favor of Lynn Goldsmith and stating that Warhol’s use of her photo was not fair use.
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Photographers Score Early Victories in Copyright Lawsuits Against Artist Richard Prince | PetaPixel
Photographers Score Early Victories in Copyright Lawsuits Against Artist Richard Prince Prince was selling the works for up to $100,000 each. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/05/16/photographers-score-early-victories-in-copyright-lawsuits-against-artist-richard-prince/ Courthouse News reports that on May 12, a Manhattan judge refused to toss out Graham’s and McNatt’s lawsuits against Prince.
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EU Law to Force AI Imagers to Disclose Copyrighted Photos in Dataset | PetaPixel
EU Law to Force AI Imagers to Disclose Copyrighted Photos in Dataset Midjourney might have to reveal exactly what photos it used to train its model. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2023/05/01/eu-law-to-force-ai-imagers-to-disclose-copyrighted-photos-in-dataset/ According to a report from the Reuters news agency, companies such as Midjourney will have to reveal the material used to train its artificial intelligence (AI)…
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Stable Diffusion copyright lawsuits could be a legal earthquake for AI | Ars Technica
Stable Diffusion copyright lawsuits could be a legal earthquake for AI Experts say generative AI is in uncharted legal waters. via Ars Technica: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/04/stable-diffusion-copyright-lawsuits-could-be-a-legal-earthquake-for-ai/ Stable Diffusion can do this because it was trained on hundreds of millions of example images harvested from across the web. Some of these images were in the public domain or…
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Getty Images sues AI art generator Stable Diffusion in the US for copyright infringement – The Verge
Getty Images sues AI art generator Stable Diffusion in the US for copyright infringement Getty says Stability AI stole 12 million images without permission via The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/6/23587393/ai-art-copyright-lawsuit-getty-images-stable-diffusion Getty Images has filed a case against Stability AI, alleging that the company copied 12 million images to train its AI model ‘without permission … or compensation.’
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Is A.I. Art Stealing from Artists? | The New Yorker
Is A.I. Art Stealing from Artists? According to the lawyer behind a new class-action suit, every image that a generative tool produces “is an infringing, derivative work.” via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/is-ai-art-stealing-from-artists According to the lawyer behind a new class-action suit, every image that a generative tool produces “is an infringing, derivative work.”
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AI Art Platform Hit With Copyright Lawsuit
AI Art Platform Hit With Copyright Lawsuit Getty Images says it is suing Stability AI, creator of Stable Diffusion, alleging intellectual property right infringement. via Hyperallergic: https://hyperallergic.com/794294/ai-art-platform-hit-with-copyright-lawsuit-getty-images/ Getty Images says it is suing Stability AI, creator of Stable Diffusion, alleging intellectual property right infringement.
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Supreme Court Hears Arguments in Warhol Copyright Case
Supreme Court Hears Arguments in Warhol Copyright Case A lawsuit over how much Andy Warhol “transformed” Lynn Goldsmith’s photographs of Prince may change how courts look at art. via Hyperallergic: https://hyperallergic.com/769275/supreme-court-hears-arguments-in-andy-warhol-copyright-case/ To make the image, Warhol was sent a portrait of Prince made a few years earlier by a photographer named Lynn Goldsmith
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The Supreme Court’s Self-Conscious Take on Andy Warhol | The New Yorker
The Supreme Court’s Self-Conscious Take on Andy Warhol In a copyright case, the Justices revealed their own anxieties about interpreting precedents. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-supreme-courts-self-conscious-take-on-andy-warhol Whether the Prince Series is fair use turns on whether Warhol “transformed” the photo on which he relied—and the answer to that turns on what exactly “transformative” means