Millions of stories published by sites including The New York Times and The New York Daily News have been found in three weeks of searching OpenAI’s training dataset. The news publishers are currently trawling through data to find instances of their copyrighted work being used to train OpenAI’s models – but they say the tech company should be forced to provide the information itself.
Source: ‘Millions’ of NYT and NY Daily News stories taken by OpenAI for training data
News sites don’t have a “genuine choice” about whether to block Google AI crawlers from scraping their content, a publisher has warned. Matt Rogerson, director of global public policy and platform strategy at the FT and former Guardian Media Group director of public policy, argued that Google’s “social contract” with publishers – through which it provided value to the industry by sending traffic to their sites – has been broken.
Source: News organisations are forced to accept Google AI crawlers, says FT policy chief
The complaint was filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York and focuses in part on the dissemination of so-called ‘manipulated’ audio. It alleges that Believe has built its business through “industrial-scale copyright infringement” of “the world’s most popular copyrighted recordings.”
Source: UMG sues Believe and TuneCore for $500 million, alleging ‘industrial-scale copyright infringement’
While Shamrock doesn’t confirm that it will be looking to make acquisitions in the music industry specifically via the new funds, it did say that it will focus on “buyout and later-stage growth equity investments in middle market companies” across its target sectors. Shamrock’s target sectors include: media, entertainment, content, communication, sports, marketing, and education.
Startups need to understand (and respect) music and music’s value more, but equally copyright owners need to stop putting unnecessary obstacles. The startup world is predicated on the most terrifying failure rates. Even if they raise money, they are often handing over too much equity and will hand over even more to raise the next funding round; and if they need to license music, the deals are always in the labels’ and publishers’ favour and can be pulled when the short licensing terms expire.
Source: Merlin CEO Jeremy Sirota: “Licensing has always been too restrictive”
US performing rights organization SESAC has won an increase in the fees it collects from US radio stations, after an arbitration panel ruled on an ongoing dispute between SESAC and station owners. The new rate will apply from January 1, 2023, through December 31, 2026. Because the rates apply retroactively, radio stations can expect to see an adjustment to the rates they have paid going back to the beginning of 2023.
Source: SESAC wins 10.4% increase in royalties collected from US radio
Veen Bosch & Keuning, the largest publisher in the Netherlands, has confirmed plans to trial the use of artificial intelligence to assist in translation of commercial fiction.“There will be one editing phase, and authors have been asked to give permission for this,” a VBK spokesperson told the Bookseller. “We are not creating books with AI, it all starts and ends with human action.”
Source: Dutch publisher to use AI to translate ‘limited number of books’ into English
Britain is moving to let artificial intelligence (AI) companies freely scrape online content unless publishers block them — a policy shift the BBC and other major media companies are fighting. The showdown could influence AI policy beyond Britain’s borders as global content publishers and tech firms watch to see whether content scraping becomes the default standard in advanced economies.
Source: AI Rules in Britain Test Global Content Rights Balance | PYMNTS.com
Prompted by concerns aired by photographers, French telecoms regulator Arcom sought to evaluate content recognition tools deployed at online content-sharing platforms. Meta’s Rights Manager and Pinterest’s Claim Portal were of particular interest, but both companies denied Arcom’s request to measure their effectiveness. Despite the regulator’s authority under law, private agreements with rightsholders took priority.
Source: Meta Denied Regulator’s Request to Test Rights Manager’s Effectiveness * TorrentFreak
Amid the explosion of unauthorized AI-generated content, entertainment marketing and production firm Dolphin has partnered with Loti AI, a deepfake detection and takedown startup aimed at protecting companies and celebrity clients against fake accounts, false endorsements, deepfakes and unlicensed distribution of content.
Source: Dolphin Partners With Deepfake Protection Firm Loti AI (EXCLUSIVE)