Mr Slow doesn't get it, just repeats what he thinks the White House wants to hear.

AI company gets quick appeal in Reuters case, Tesla can't dodge Blade Runner claims yet, and photographer challenges the server rule.

https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/04/08/3-count-embed-this-2/

Blog Post: Viral DRM Awarded Damages for Its 512(f) Claims, But At What Cost?

https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2025/04/viral-drm-awarded-damages-for-its-512f-claims-but-at-what-cost.htm

The Irish Writers Union will be handing in a petition to the Minister for Trade on Thursday 17th in Kildare Street, Dublin protesting at the use by Meta of copyright protected works to train its AI models without authorisation. I have signed (my late father's books are affected).

Today, in our capacity as an accredited observer to the World Intellectual Property Organization – WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights, our Legal Director Teresa Nobre made a statement on the current draft treaty on the protection of broadcasting organizations.

Don't cut the signal! Read the statement now: https://communia-association.org/2025/04/08/sccr-46-communia-statement-on-broadcasting-organizations/

Ars Technica: Judge calls out OpenAI’s “straw man” argument in New York Times copyright suit. “According to OpenAI, the NYT should have known that ChatGPT was being trained on its articles and raised its lawsuit in 2020, partly because of the newspaper’s own reporting. To support this, OpenAI pointed to a single November 2020 article, where the NYT reported that OpenAI was analyzing a […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/07/ars-technica-judge-calls-out-openais-straw-man-argument-in-new-york-times-copyright-suit/

I was busy switching firms. The courts were busy issuing copyright rulings. Here's everything I missed over the past 3 weeks—Rule 11 sanctions, AI lawsuits, disco flashbacks, and more—all tidied up in one place before I sweep them behind the couch.

https://copyrightlately.com/whats-up-spring-cleaning-edition/

Check out my latest SubStack article, “Our Family: Ghibli Style - Generative AI, Copyright and Culture”
https://wfryer.substack.com/p/our-family-ghibli-style

Yosemite Valley Morning Monochrome by Jeff Sullivan (www.JeffSullivanPhotography.com)

https://tmblr.co/Z7VXvxhJWrjsOe00

#yosemite #national #park #travel #fall #colors #landscape #nature #photography #workshop #california #usa #photo #copyright #november #2023 #jeff #sullivan #sierra #sierranevada #states #united #nikon #d850 #nikkor #70 #200mm #f28 #lens #nik

‘Meta has stolen books’: authors to protest in London against AI trained using ‘shadow library’

#meta #AI #copyright

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/03/meta-has-stolen-books-authors-to-protest-in-london-against-ai-trained-using-shadow-library

# OpenAI, #Google reject UK’s #AI #copyright plan - https://www.politico.eu/article/openai-google-reject-uks-ai-copyright-plan/ “We believe training on the open web must be free,”

PC World: US feds say AI-generated prompt outputs can’t be copyrighted. “The bottom line of the updated Report on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence (PDF) is that a work of art needs ‘some degree of originality’ and ‘human authorship’ in order for it to be eligible for copyright in the United States. Crucially, simply plugging prompts into an AI image generator or text generator does NOT […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/06/pc-world-us-feds-say-ai-generated-prompt-outputs-cant-be-copyrighted/

From @Techcrunch: A new study appears to lend credence to allegations that OpenAI trained at least some of its AI models on copyrighted content. The organization is embroiled in suits brought by authors, programmers, and other rights-holders who accuse the company of using their works to develop its models without permission.

https://flip.it/NWeJH-

Big tech companies want total control but opt-out should be the way to go:

"OpenAI and Google have rejected the government’s preferred approach to solve the dispute about artificial intelligence and copyright.

In February almost every UK daily newspaper gave over its front page and website to a campaign to stop tech giants from exploiting the creative industries.

The government’s plan, which has prompted protests from leading figures in the arts, is to amend copyright law to allowdevelopers to train their AI models on publicly available content for commercial use without consent from rights holders, unless they opt out.

However, OpenAI has called for a broader copyright exemption for AI, rejecting the opt-out model."

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/technology-uk/article/google-openai-reject-copyright-plan-bnnzztts9

"More than a decade ago, Congress tried to pass SOPA and PIPA—two sweeping bills that would have allowed the government and copyright holders to quickly shut down entire websites based on allegations of piracy. The backlash was immediate and massive. Internet users, free speech advocates, and tech companies flooded lawmakers with protests, culminating in an “Internet Blackout” on January 18, 2012. Turns out, Americans don’t like government-run internet blacklists. The bills were ultimately shelved.

Thirteen years later, as institutional memory fades and appetite for opposition wanes, members of Congress in both parties are ready to try this again.

The Foreign Anti-Digital Piracy Act (FADPA), along with at least one other bill still in draft form, would revive this reckless strategy. These new proposals would let rights holders get federal court orders forcing ISPs and DNS providers to block entire websites based on accusations of infringing copyright. Lawmakers claim they’re targeting “pirate” sites—but what they’re really doing is building an internet kill switch.

These bills are an unequivocal and serious threat to a free and open internet. EFF and our supporters are going to fight back against them."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/congress-reviving-site-blocking-and-its-just-dangerous-ever

Guy runs an experiment to see Just how easy is it to wrangle from GPT that which is very clearly someone else’s IP… Results are interesting, it’s not hard turns out. Some guardrails do exist for very recognizable characters, but that has not prevented LLMs from returning copyrighted IP on image prompts. Or from stealing studio-specific styles, characters and designs for memes - which has led to ‘Ghiblifying’ everything. #StudioGhibli #LLM #LLMs #Image #copyright #IP #AI #ChatGPT #ImagePrompts #AIImage #AIImages #legal

https://theaiunderwriter.substack.com/p/an-image-of-an-archeologist-adventurer

OpenAI’s models ‘memorized’ copyrighted content, new study suggests

https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/04/openais-models-memorized-copyrighted-content-new-study-suggests/

AFP: Authors hold London protest against Meta for ‘stealing’ work to train AI. “Around 100 authors on Thursday protested outside the London headquarters of Meta, accusing the U.S. tech giant of ‘stealing’ content to train its Artificial Intelligence models.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/04/afp-authors-hold-london-protest-against-meta-for-stealing-work-to-train-ai/

Site-Blocking Legislation Is Back. It’s Still a Terrible Idea. - https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/congress-reviving-site-blocking-and-its-just-dangerous-ever #sopa and #pipa are back, now they are called the Foreign Anti-Digital Piracy Act (#FADPA). we must stop it #copyright