Category: Copyright

  • Richard Prince to Pay Photographers Over $650,000 In Copyright Lawsuits | PetaPixel

    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/

  • Inside the News Industry’s Uneasy Negotiations With OpenAI – The New York Times

    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…

  • 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 – 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…

  • 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 | 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.

  • Photo Agencies Publish Open Letter Demanding AI Copyright Protection | PetaPixel

    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).

  • Instagram Beats Photographers’ Copyright Case Over Embedded Images | PetaPixel

    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.

  • Generative AI is a Minefield for Copyright Law | PetaPixel

    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…

  • Supreme Court Rules Andy Warhol’s Prince Art is Copyright Infringement | PetaPixel

    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.

  • Photographers Score Early Victories in Copyright Lawsuits Against Artist Richard Prince | PetaPixel

    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.

  • 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 | 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)…

  • Stable Diffusion copyright lawsuits could be a legal earthquake for AI | Ars Technica

    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…

  • 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 – 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.’

  • Is A.I. Art Stealing from Artists? | The New Yorker

    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.”

  • AI Art Platform Hit With Copyright Lawsuit

    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.

  • Supreme Court Hears Arguments in Warhol Copyright Case

    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

  • The Supreme Court’s Self-Conscious Take on Andy Warhol | The New Yorker

    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

  • He’s Bigger Than Picasso on AI Platforms, and He Hates It

    He’s Bigger Than Picasso on AI Platforms, and He Hates It

    He’s Bigger Than Picasso on AI Platforms, and He Hates It  The advent of AI generators has led to an avalanche of rip-off artworks that have used Grzegorz Rutkowski’s name as a prompt. via Hyperallergic: https://hyperallergic.com/766241/hes-bigger-than-picasso-on-ai-platforms-and-he-hates-it/ The advent of AI generators has led to an avalanche of rip-off artworks that have used Grzegorz Rutkowski’s name…

  • AI Image Generators Could Be the Next Frontier of Photo Copyright Theft | PetaPixel

    AI Image Generators Could Be the Next Frontier of Photo Copyright Theft | PetaPixel

    AI Image Generators Could Be the Next Frontier of Photo Copyright Theft Will you even be able to tell your photo has been used? via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2022/08/19/ai-image-generators-could-be-the-next-frontier-of-photo-copyright-theft/ Now, the companies behind these technologies haven’t said as much, but to train these machines it doesn’t seem likely that millions of copyrighted images weren’t used to inform…

  • Photographers Seek to Revive Lawsuit Against Instagram Over Embedding | PetaPixel

    Photographers Seek to Revive Lawsuit Against Instagram Over Embedding | PetaPixel

    Photographers Seek to Revive Lawsuit Against Instagram Over Embedding The photographers want to succeed where they’ve failed previously. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2022/06/29/photographers-seek-to-revive-lawsuit-against-instagram-over-embedding/ Hunley and Brauer are asking to overturn a California federal judge’s dismissal of their lawsuit alleging that Meta’s Instagram is liable for secondary infringement when third-party sites use Instagram’s embedding tool to display their…

  • U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Critical ‘Fair Use’ Case Over Warhol Photo | PetaPixel

    U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Critical ‘Fair Use’ Case Over Warhol Photo | PetaPixel

    U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Critical ‘Fair Use’ Case Over Warhol Photo The ultimate verdict will have major ramifications on fair use in the visual arts. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2022/03/28/u-s-supreme-court-to-hear-critical-fair-use-case-over-warhol-photo/ Lynn Goldsmith is a famed photographer who is also a long-time American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) member. In 1984 Vanity Fair licensed one of Goldsmith’s…