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Early discussions involve a fee to use works as training materials and a prohibition on outputs that borrow too much from existing material. Under the model, there’d be a fee for the ingestion of works and another for outputs that reference content. Talks include restrictions on prompting the chatbots to produce material “in the style of” authors, using characters from other works and producing summaries of books.

Source: Authors Guild Exploring Blanket License For Artificial Intelligence Companies

The No Artificial Intelligence Fake Replicas And Unauthorized Duplications (No AI FRAUD) Act was brought forward on Wednesday (January 10) by a bipartisan group of House Representatives led by Democrat Rep. Madeleine Dean of Pennsylvania and Republican Rep. Maria Salazar of Florida. The bill goes a long way to establishing a “right of publicity” at the federal level in the United States.

Source: Music industry applauds introduction of ‘No AI FRAUD Act’ in US Congress

The Ensuring Likeness Voice and Image Security (ELVIS) Act, Tennessee’s proposed legislature to update the state’s Protection of Personal Rights law, is rapidly garnering support throughout the music industry. Introduced today in the heart of Nashville, the bill was presented by Governor Bill Lee, alongside Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson, and House Majority Leader William Lamberth.

Source: Tennessee’s ‘ELVIS Act’ is Quickly Gaining Music Industry Support

On Wednesday, news industry executives urged Congress for legal clarification that using journalism to train AI assistants like ChatGPT is not fair use, as claimed by companies such as OpenAI. Instead, they would prefer a licensing regime for AI training content that would force Big Tech companies to pay for content in a method similar to rights clearinghouses for music.

Source: At Senate AI hearing, news executives fight against “fair use” claims for AI training data

A bipartisan group of U.S. House lawmakers announced a new bill on Wednesday (Jan. 10) that regulates the use of AI for cloning voices and likenesses. Called the No Artificial Intelligence Fake Replicas And Unauthorized Duplications Act of 2023 (“No AI FRAUD” Act), the bill aims to establish a federal framework for protecting one’s voice and likeness and lays out First Amendment protections.

Source: House Lawmakers Unveil No AI FRAUD Act in Push for Federal Protections for Voice, Likeness

In a blog post, OpenAI said the Times “is not telling the full story.” It took particular issue with claims that its ChatGPT AI tool reproduced Times stories verbatim, arguing that the Times had manipulated prompts to include regurgitated excerpts of articles. “Even when using such prompts, our models don’t typically behave the way The New York Times insinuates,” OpenAI said.

Source: OpenAI claims The New York Times tricked ChatGPT into copying its articles

In every legitimate market in the world, the use of others’ property requires the owner’s consent and agreed-upon compensation. Together, for example, music and technology have developed a burgeoning streaming market built on the common-sense principle that use of copyrighted creative works requires licensing and consent. AI developers must keep accurate records of the copyrighted works used by their models and make them available to rights holders seeking to enforce their rights.

Source: The Path Forward for AI Must Be a Responsible One (Guest Column)

Like every company, Adobe is figuring out what the boundaries of copyright law and fair use look like in the age of AI, just like the creatives that rely on its products. But at the same time, it’s also making huge investments in and shipping generative AI tools like the Firefly image generator inside of huge mainstream software products like Photoshop and Illustrator.

Source: How Adobe is managing the AI copyright dilemma, with general counsel Dana Rao