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Kyoko Kitamura

New blog post: Is China leading the next music disruption? Are the Chinese AI music platforms Mureka and Melodio benefiting from a calculated disregard for copyright? But is fair use the answer/

Mureka can generate music from “reference tracks”, an uploaded track or a YouTube link provided by the user, effectively making the user complicit by crowdsourcing training data. Are they going the way of Suno and Udio?

kyokokitamura.com/is-china-lea
#music #musicbusiness #copyright #AI #fairuse #Melodio

www.kyokokitamura.comIs China leading the next music disruption? | Kyoko Kitamura
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

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."

thetimes.com/uk/technology-uk/

The Times · AI giants reject government’s approach to solving copyright rowBy Georgia Lambert
#AI#GenerativeAI#UK
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zombor.io

**#Scraping of #LLM ’s explained:**
* take a company that lives off of answering people’s questions, e.g. WikiHow
* take all WikiHow’s guides and turn them into an answerbot.
* make money by providing the answers to WikiHow users with your chatbot
* claim that you are not a competitor to WikiHow, and your use of their entire content library is #FairUse
* repeat with the entire internet

#GenAI#AITraining
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"The Third Circuit should affirm the ruling, preferably on the alternative ground that standards incorporated into law are necessarily promoted to the public domain. The internet has democratized access to law, making it easier than ever for the public —from journalists to organizers to safety professionals to ordinary concerned citizens —to understand, comment on, and share the myriad regulations that bind us. That work is particularly essential where those regulations are crafted by private parties and made mandatory by regulators with limited public oversight and increasingly limited staffing. Copyright law should not be read to impede it.

The Supreme Court has explained that “every citizen is presumed to know the law, and it needs no argument to show that all should have free access” to it. Apparently, it needs some argument after all, but it is past time for the debate to end."

eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/eff-

Electronic Frontier Foundation · EFF Urges Third Circuit to Join the Legal Chorus: No One Owns the LawTwo appeals courts have recently rejected efforts by private parties to use copyright to restrict access to the laws that most directly affect ordinary citizens: regulations that ensure our homes, workplaces, devices, and many other products, are safe and fit for purpose. Apparently hoping the...
#USA#FairUse#Copyright
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Global Threads

🤖 AI & COPYRIGHT
🔴 Anthropic Scores Win in Music Lawsuit

🔸 Judge denies music publishers’ bid to block Anthropic from using song lyrics to train Claude.
🔸 Court says publishers failed to show “irreparable harm.”
🔸 UMG, Concord, ABKCO sued over use of lyrics from 500+ songs incl. Beyoncé & Rolling Stones.
🔸 Fair use remains key unresolved legal issue in AI training cases.

#AI#Anthropic#Claude
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Grum999 :grum_rsquare:

What's the difference between piracy and fair use?

Piracy

  • you're poor, can't pay for all the shiny movies you want to watch, the good music you want to listen, the marvelous books you want to read and not available in libraries (because Trump&Co. burnt them)
  • you illegally download a couple of them
  • you even didn't had the time to watch/listen/read them
    => you're a f*cking criminal, because of you, the major won't be able to make as much as billion dollars of benefits as they want: go to jail and pay a hefty fine :blobcatknife:

Fair use

  • you're insanely rich, like so much billions, you can literally buy some countries
  • you illegally download hundred of thousand (if not thousand of thousand) of them
  • you make it plagiarism and counterfeit that you can now sell for a high price
    => you're in a fair use case because you know, you need to do it before the Chinese do it otherwise they will make billions in place of you and it wouldn't be fair: get the law being adapted to your case and get a publicly funded subsidy :ablobcatattention:
#Piracy#FairUse#AI
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"The AI landscape is in danger of being dominated by large companies with deep pockets. These big names are in the news almost daily. But they’re far from the only ones – there are dozens of AI companies with fewer than 10 employees trying to build something new in a particular niche.

This bill demands that creators of any AI model–even a two-person company or a hobbyist tinkering with a small software build– identify copyrighted materials used in training. That requirement will be incredibly onerous, even if limited just to works registered with the U.S. Copyright Office. The registration system is a cumbersome beast at best–neither machine-readable nor accessible, it’s more like a card catalog than a database–that doesn’t offer information sufficient to identify all authors of a work, much less help developers to reliably match works in a training set to works in the system.

Even for major tech companies, meeting these new obligations would be a daunting task. For a small startup, throwing on such an impossible requirement could be a death sentence. If A.B. 412 becomes law, these smaller players will be forced to devote scarce resources to an unworkable compliance regime instead of focusing on development and innovation. The risk of lawsuits—potentially from copyright trolls—would discourage new startups from even attempting to enter the field."

eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/cali

Electronic Frontier Foundation · California’s A.B. 412: A Bill That Could Crush Startups and Cement A Big Tech AI MonopolyCalifornia legislators have begun debating a bill (A.B. 412) that would require AI developers to track and disclose every registered copyrighted work used in AI training. At first glance, this might sound like a reasonable step toward transparency. But it’s an impossible standard that could crush...
#USA#California#AI
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Rachel has moved...!

If I record myself reading a copyrighted book and share the recording with some friends (for free), is that copyright infringement?

If so, can I claim fair use by, idk, dressing up in a funny outfit or something and turning the reading into a performance art piece, which I then record and share?

Is it copyright infringement to extract the audio from said recording of such a performance art piece and share that? There must be a legal way to do this...

#FairUse#copyright#AskFedi
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