Crooner in Rights Spat

The Surprising History of Copyright and The Promise of a Post-Copyright World – Question Copyright

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Music Publishers Sue AI Company Anthropic for Copyright Infringement

Universal Music Publishing Group, Concord, and ABKCO claim that the large language model Claud was trained on copyrighted works

Pluralistic: Copyright won't solve creators' Generative AI problem (09 Feb 2023)

The media spectacle of generative AI (in which AI companies' breathless claims of their software's sorcerous powers are endlessly repeated) has understandably alarmed many creative workers, a group that's already traumatized by extractive abuse by media and tech companies.

George Clooney, Tom Hanks, and Meryl Streep back new ‘Human Consent Standard’ for AI licensing

People can tell AI to pay up to use their likenesses.

Nightshade: Protecting Copyright

AI and the Destruction of the Creative Commons

The balance of software copyright protection and openness has always been fraught with minutiae and detail that bores all but the most nerdy of pedants. Yet, through much effort and 40 years of debate we had reached an equilibrium. Now AI has thrown that out the window.

Technology and Below-the-Line Labor in the Copyfight over Intellectual Property

Andrew Ross, Technology and Below-the-Line Labor in the Copyfight over Intellectual Property, American Quarterly, Vol. 58, No. 3, Rewiring the "Nation": The Place of Technology in American Studies (Sep., 2006), pp. 743-766

Anthropic sued by authors over alleged misuse of copyrighted works for AI training

The complaint alleges that Anthropic used pirated versions of books by hundreds of thousands of authors to develop its AI models without proper authorization or compensation.

From ownership to stewardship: reimagining intellectual property governance through the Knowledge Commons Framework

Contemporary intellectual property (IP) governance remains strongly shaped by proprietary logics of exclusivity, control, and rights allocation, even as knowledge production becomes increasingly co...

Book publishers sue Google for copyright infringement over Gemini AI training

Group of major publishers accuses the tech giant of ‘one of the most prolific infringements of copyrighted materials in history’

Anthropic agrees to work with music publishers to prevent copyright infringement

Anthropic has partly resolved a legal disagreement that saw the AI startup draw the ire of the music industry.

Who owns an AI generated song? What we can learn from the phonograph and the evolution of copyright laws

History suggests copyright adapts to technology. AI may be no exception.

Head of copyright committee wants to deny EU creators the right to share - Creative Commons

Over the last few years the European Union has been working on revising its rules on copyright. But the latest proposal from the head of the copyright committee would deny creators the right to refuse remuneration — the right to share a work without getting paid — which could undermine the use of CC licenses…

Mx. Aria Stewart (@aredridel@kolektiva.social)

I knew it was this way but it's really hitting me today how much the Open Source movement and copyright maximalism supplanted the idea of free software, and again how much the Free Software movement turned from a close ideological cousin of the remix and open culture movement into a culture of legalism. At the same time, copyright law itself has been extended to be near-immortal copyrights rather than brief monopolies to spur creation by enabling profit from creating works.

Music giant BMG sues Anthropic over AI training

The company's Claude chatbot was allegedly trained on copyright song lyrics from a variety of artists including the Rolling Stones.