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US judge rules that Anthropic's use of copyrighted content to train AI was fair use, but pirating books is step too far
By Jess Kinghorn published
News You lose some, you lose some.

Trump administration reportedly fires the head of the US Copyright Office as it tries to tackle AI's use of copyrighted materials
By Andy Edser published
News The firing finger gets to work once more.

US copyright law 'forces researchers to explore extra-legal methods' for game preservation, say historians who are 'disappointed' after being denied a DMCA exemption
By Andy Chalk published
The Video Game History Foundation had proposed rule changes that would make it easier for researchers and archivist to legally access old games.

A leaked document indicates Runway's Gen-3 AI video generation tool may have been trained on YouTube videos and copyrighted content without permission
By Andy Edser published
news I imagine the lawyers are sharpening their pencils...

The internet is not a free-for-all—we shouldn't let big tech companies wish copyright out of existence
By Jacob Ridley published
Hands off Is everything on the internet fair game for AI? Nope, and it never has been.

Music streamer that spent years streaming other artists' work as their own gets convicted of fraud in Denmark
By Nick Evanson published
news And it was a very profitable six years of streaming, too.

Have you discussed pirating media on the internet? These film studios might like a word
By Andy Edser published
news First Amendment rights have protected these piracy-discussing redditors from identification up until now, but that hasn't stopped studios from trying.

OpenAI says it's 'impossible' to create ChatGPT without copyrighted content, as if that's somehow a good excuse
By Andy Chalk published
news In the face of a growing number of lawsuits, OpenAI insists that the use of copyrighted content to train LLMs is fair use.
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