The suits alleges, among other things, that OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Meta’s LLaMA were trained on illegally-acquired datasets containing their works, which they say were acquired from “shadow library” websites like Bibliotik, Library Genesis, Z-Library, and others, noting the books are “available in bulk via torrent systems.”
Source: Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement
With the accessibility of AI voice training technology, the question remains how the music industry will adapt to this new technology? Producer and DJ, DJ Fresh believes he has the answer, so he’s teamed up with software developer Nico Pellerin to forge a new path. VoiceSwap aims to create AI voice models that have been authorized by the artist.
Source: Is Voice Licensing A Future Revenue Stream for Artists?
Mona Awad and Paul Tremblay allege that their books, which are copyrighted, were ‘used to train’ ChatGPT because the chatbot generated ‘very accurate summaries’ of the works. The complaint said that OpenAI “unfairly” profits from “stolen writing and ideas” and calls for monetary damages on behalf of all US-based authors whose works were allegedly used to train ChatGPT.
Source: Authors file a lawsuit against OpenAI for unlawfully ‘ingesting’ their books
Laws in both the US and the UK stipulate that, when it comes to copyright, only humans can claim authorship. So for a game like AI Dungeon, where the platform allows a player to, essentially, “write” a narrative with the help of a chatbot, claims of ownership can get murky: Who owns the output? The company that developed the AI, or the user?
Source: Generative AI in Games Will Create a Copyright Crisis
Valve PR representative Kaci Boyle said the company’s goal is “not to discourage the use of [AI] on Steam; instead, we’re working through how to integrate it into our already-existing review policies.” She went on to say that the company’s current review process takes into account current copyright law, and that “while developers can use these AI technologies in their work… they can not infringe on existing copyrights.”
Source: Valve won’t approve Steam games that use copyright-infringing AI artwork
Google will be removing links to Canadian news in Search, News, and Discover following the recent passage of the Online News Act in Canada, according to a blog post by Kent Walker, Google’s president of global affairs. The law, also called Bill C-18, forces big tech companies like Google and Meta to pay news publishers for their content.
The music community is at the center of the AI conversation, partly because at this stage it’s one of the easiest art forms to understand the impact of AI —everyone’s heard a fake Drake or a fake McCartney by now. But it’s not the end, just the beginning of something new. There is a great opportunity to understand it, collaborate with it, and seize the opportunities it generates.
Our proposal is simple. When Big Tech companies produce output from generative AI that was trained on public data, they would pay a tiny licensing fee, by the word or pixel or relevant unit of data. Those fees would go into the AI Dividend fund. Every few months, the Commerce Department would send out the entirety of the fund, split equally, to every resident nationwide. That’s it.
Websites offering up free — and not always legal — music flourished in the gap between the fall of the CD era and the rise of streaming. That freedom unlocked an era of unfettered creativity for a generation of artists and built a critical digital-first audience that would later lead to rap’s dominance in streaming. It also led to the current dilemma: How do you preserve a part of hip-hop history that isn’t necessarily legal?
Source: Mixtape Sites Like DatPiff Propelled Rap. Can They Be Preserved?
Jose “Chenel” Teran, a leader in perhaps the largest known YouTube music royalty scam in history, was sentenced to 70 months in prison on Monday. Though the official legal document has yet to be made publicly available, the news was verified by an IRS agent who worked on the case. Teran claimed approximately 50,000 song titles that he and his company MediaMuv had no ownership rights to over the course of about five years.
Source: YouTube Fraudster Sentenced to Nearly 6 Years in Prison for $23M Royalty Scheme