The US Copyright Office is opening a public comment period around AI and copyright issues beginning August 30th as the agency figures out how to approach the subject. The Copyright Office says that “over the past several years, the Office has begun to receive applications to register works containing AI-generated material.” It may use the comments to inform how it decides to grant copyright in the future.
Source: US Copyright Office wants to hear what people think about AI and copyright
The Copyright Office has decided against revisiting the Section 115 compulsory license in a new study, pointing to changes made via the MMA. “As the changes made to the license through the MMA have been effective only for the past two and a half years,” reads the relevant portion of the message, “the Office believes that it would be premature at this time to engage in a new study of the section 115 license.”
Source: Copyright Office Declines Section 115 Compulsory License Reform
In its second report on connected technology, the Culture, Media and Sport Committee warns that the Government’s original plan to exempt text and data mining by AI from copyright protection risks reducing arts and cultural production to mere ‘inputs’ in AI development and shows a clear lack of understanding of the needs of the UK’s creative industries.
Source: Abandon AI copyright exemption to protect UK creative industries, MPs say
AI developers must be stopped from freely using music, literature and artwork to train their models, a group of British lawmakers have warned. In a new report, the UK government has been told that it must “rebuild trust” with creative industries and introduce safeguards to ensure their intellectual property isn’t mined for profit.
Source: AI Policy ‘Weaknesses’ in UK Put Artists at Risk, MPs Warn – Decrypt
Microsoft-backed OpenAI took aim at what it called “ancillary” claims in the lawsuits on Monday, telling the court that the text ChatGPT creates does not violate the authors’ rights in their books. OpenAI has also denied the authors’ core allegation that the use of their books to train ChatGPT infringes their copyrights, but it did not ask the court to dismiss those claims on Monday.
Source: OpenAI asks court to trim authors’ copyright lawsuits
The SEC has never regulated the art market or the trade of luxury goods. But might the Commission’s current antipathy for crypto-related products coax it to start regulating the sale of NFT-backed art projects, digital collectibles, and membership passes? Was Monday’s action the takedown of a run-of-the-mill securities scheme that only happened to feature NFTs, or a calculated signal that the SEC is coming for the entire NFT market?
Content creation is work, but in such a rapidly shifting social media landscape, creators face an uphill battle fighting for fair pay and ownership of of their content. The CGA, which launched last week, describes itself as a “professional service organization” instead of a labor union. It won’t act as a collective bargaining unit or authorize strikes, but it does offer benefits that are “similar to those offered by unions,” according to its site.
Source: A new creator’s guild aims to protect online content creators | TechCrunch
Photographers and their collaborators may find themselves increasingly displaced by artificial intelligence systems that can generate synthetic images at a fraction of the cost without having to pay assignment rates or reimburse travel costs. To add insult to injury, photographers and artists have found that these artificial intelligence systems were trained on their work which was searched out online without their permission.
The sports programmer inked an expanded collaboration with Google Cloud to use the internet giant’s generative AI technology. Fox Sports said that by using Google Cloud’s Vertex AI Vision system, it can quickly search footage from more than 1.9 million videos and produce new content “in near real-time” for TV, social and marketing content.
Source: Fox Sports Taps Google Cloud for Generative AI Capabilities