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trike 3 Holdings and Counterlife Media have fired back at Meta, claiming that the tech giant’s “personal use” defense for pirating their adult films is a smokescreen. The producers allege that Meta not only used algorithms to hoard its films for AI training, but also sacrificed the producers’ works to improve download speeds through BitTorrent’s “tit-for-tat” mechanism.
Source: Tit-For-Tat: Porn Producers Counter Meta’s “Personal Use” Piracy Defense * TorrentFreak
News publishers have celebrated a victory in the first stage of their copyright lawsuit against Canadian AI start-up Cohere. A judge has rejected in full Cohere’s motion to dismiss, saying publishers had “adequately alleged” that outputs from the AI provider were “quantitatively and qualitatively similar” to their content. Some 14 news and magazine publishers are involved in the case, which was filed in February.
Source: News publishers win first round of copyright claim against AI start-up Cohere
In a significant shift, policymakers in Brussels are moving to scale back and simplify landmark rules for artificial intelligence and data privacy. Driven by growing concern that overregulation is stifling economic growth, officials and business leaders across the 27-nation bloc are questioning whether Europe’s digital rulebook has gone too far and left companies lagging the United States and China.
In February, more than 1,000 artists – including Kate Bush, Annie Lennox of Eurythmics, and Damon Albarn of Blur and The Gorillaz – released a “silent album” in protest against the UK government’s proposed changes to copyright law. Now the album is being released on vinyl, with a bonus track – a recording of an empty studio – from Beatles legend Sir Paul McCartney. protesting UK AI copyright law proposal
An attempt by a law firm to convince authors to opt out of the $1.5 billion class action settlement reached with Anthropic met with fierce resistance by presiding judge William Alsup in a November 13 hearing. ClaimsHero, launched a publicity campaign to persuade authors not to agree to the terms reached in the Bartz et al. v. Anthropic claiming that if authors opt out, they may be able win a bigger payout in the case.
Source: Anthropic Judge Slams Efforts to Have Authors Opt Out of Settlement
Meta and other tech companies refusing to sign content deals with Australian news outlets face millions in new fines, with Labor’s proposed media bargaining incentive set to impose penalties based on the local revenue of major platforms. Large social media and search platforms with Australian-derived revenue of at least $250m will be subject to the new rules, irrespective of whether they carry news content, according to new detail released by the assistant treasurer, Daniel Mulino.
Source: Meta could face millions in fines for not signing content deals in Australia
Matthew McConaughey and Michael Caine have teamed with AI audio company ElevenLabs to produce virtual replications of their famous voices. McConaughey also is investing an undisclosed sum in New York-based ElevenLabs. He’s collaborated with the company since it was founded in 2022. Now McConaughey is using ElevenLabs’ technology to bring a Spanish-language audio version of his newsletter “Lyrics of Livin’” in his own voice.
Eline Van der Velden, the creator of AI actress Tilly Norwood, says the character is a work of art that sparked a conversation. “I didn’t think it was controversial,” she says. The performers’ union, SAG-AFTRA, disagreed, denouncing her for “devaluing human artistry” and threatening actors’ jobs. Van der Velden countered that no one’s job was impacted and that Tilly Norwood required a lot of human artistry, just of a different kind.
The Stockholm-based music licensing platform on Tuesday (November 11) said Studio analyzes uploaded videos and generates a synchronized soundtrack using music from its catalog along with ambient sounds and foley effects. The tool draws on data from more than 3 billion daily plays across online platforms to match audio to video content, Epidemic Sound said, while ensuring that Studio delivers “a cohesive, legally safe soundtrack seamlessly synced to the visuals.”
Source: Epidemic Sound unveils AI ‘Studio’ tool to generate video soundtracks
Deezer says that roughly 50,000 fully AI-generated tracks are now uploaded every day, accounting for 34% of all music delivered to it. The new figures were published alongside the findings from a survey Deezer commissioned from Ipsos, covering 9,000 people in eight countries: the US, Japan, UK, Germany, France, Brazil, the Netherlands and Canada. The most eye-catching finding is that the survey involved respondents listening to two fully AI-generated tracks and one human song, then guessing which ones were AI. 97% failed the test.
Source: 50,000 AI-music tracks are now uploaded to Deezer every day