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Hollywood studios target AI image generator in copyright lawsuit

Ars Technica

On Wednesday, Disney and NBCUniversal filed a lawsuit against AI image-synthesis company Midjourney , accusing the company of copyright infringement for allowing users to create images of characters like Darth Vader and Shrek, reports The Hollywood Reporter. Read full article Comments

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Meta mocked for raising “Bob Dylan defense” of torrenting in AI copyright fight

Ars Technica

Authors think that Meta's admitted torrenting of a pirated books data set used to train its AI models is evidence enough to win their copyright fightwhich previously hinged on a court ruling that AI training on copyrighted works isn't fair use. Read full article Comments

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The Case for Copyright Exceptions and Fair Use

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

For on January 17, 1984, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that consumers could tape their favorite TV shows and watch them later without the copyright holder’s consent. 417 (1984), also known as the “ Betamax case ”, is a landmark copyright precedent that has had enormous implications for the media economy. copyright law.

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Define irony: OpenAI, sued repeatedly for copyright infringement, files claim against subreddit before backing down

TechSpot

OpenAI filed a copyright complaint to Reddit over the unauthorized use of the company's copyrighted logo by the r/ChatGPT subreddit. Read Entire Article

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Report: Creating a 5-second AI video is like running a microwave for an hour

Mashable Tech

Disclosure: Ziff Davis, Mashable’s parent company, in April filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in training and operating its AI systems. And all of that, according to this in-depth new report, comes at a pretty high cost.

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Upholding The Social Bargain: Bookshare and Copyright Compliance

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

copyright law. The Section 121 copyright exception (often known as the Chafee Amendment after the Senator who introduced it in 1996) makes it possible for Benetech to scan just about any book and make it available to this community. The publishing industry and disability organizations both agreed on this provision of copyright law.

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Reply Comments on the Proposed Treaty for Access to Copyrighted Works

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We filed the following comments to the Copyright Office's request for comments on issues about access for people with print disabilities. Many of the comments critical of the proposed treaty come from parties that object in principle to copyright exceptions, rather than having a direct stake in the issue at hand.

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