Niels Famaey on Fighting Piracy in Belgium https://www.byteseu.com/1282105/ #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Belgium #BookPiracy #Copyright #Europe #EuropeanCommission #EuropeanUnion #FlemishPublishersAssociation #InternetArchive

J Edward Wynia (@jwynia) on Threads https://www.threads.com/@jwynia/post/DNRaKdHN23k #AI #copyright

J Edward Wynia (@jwynia) on Threads https://www.threads.com/@jwynia/post/DNRaKdHN23k #AI #copyright

Um artigo meu no SapoTek:

«Portugal: o país onde a Ciência precisa de pedir licença»

https://tek.sapo.pt/opiniao/artigos/portugal-o-pais-onde-a-ciencia-precisa-de-pedir-licenca

Holding criminals to account would harm the country’s fledgling crime industry, undermining the US’s status as an international leader in crime, argues crime boss. Also, how can we be sure who the real victims are here without a thorough investigation? Plus there’s no way that we could make reparations to so many complainants. It’s just too messy. #AIEthics #copyright #IP https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/ai-industry-horrified-to-face-largest-copyright-class-action-ever-certified/

A class action lawsuit is being prepared against Anthropic over their downloading of copyrighted material from pirate websites.

If you're an author, and your books have been registered with the US Copyright Office, you may be eligible to be included, and thus receive damages.

The plaintiff's lawyers are collecting contact information so that they can ensure eligible authors receive formal notice of the class action.

More information and the form are here: https://www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-author-contact/

#PleaseBoost and pass on to any authors you know not on the fediverse.

#WritersOfMastodon #WritingCommunity #AI #Anthropic #copyright #author

@writingcommunity @bookstodon

Techdirt: Disney Scraps Deepfake Dwayne Johnson After Lawyers Panic About The Public Domain. “Disney spent 18 months negotiating to create a digital version of Dwayne Johnson for the live-action Moana film. Johnson agreed. The technology was ready. Then Disney’s lawyers killed the whole thing—not because of privacy concerns or actor rights, but because they worried parts of the film might […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/11/techdirt-disney-scraps-deepfake-dwayne-johnson-after-lawyers-panic-about-the-public-domain/

It's not just #ai @scibooks is freely circulating #copyright material & every #mod should #ban to support the scientists whose living they're stealing
The website and advertisers also circulate #malware
That @physics regularly boosts these posts demonstrates that they don't care about the well-being of the #physicists, their rights over their own #physics work or the security of their own followers.
If they persist, these should also get blocked by all #scientists with a conscience
#science

KI-Branche fürchtet größte jemals zugelassene US-Sammelklage zum #Copyright | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/KI-Branche-fuerchtet-groesste-jemals-zugelassene-US-Sammelklage-zum-Copyright-10515779.html #ArtificialIntelligence #Urheberrecht

Massive Copyright Case Threatens AI Industry

#Anthropic apparently claimed «it cost Google $34.5 million "to set up a 'Books Rights Registry' to identify owners for payouts under the proposed settlement" in one of the largest cases involving book authors prior to the AI avalanche of lawsuits».
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/ai-industry-horrified-to-face-largest-copyright-class-action-ever-certified/

Did that actually happen? I thought not. The registry was part of the proposed settlements which were rejected.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors_Guild,_Inc._v._Google,_Inc.#District_trial

Perhaps don't launch businesses that rely on breaking the law? Just a thought.

'If the appeals court denies the petition…the emerging company may be doomed. As Anthropic argued, it now "faces hundreds of billions of dollars in potential damages liability at trial in four months"…that involves "up to seven million potential claimants, whose works span a century of publishing history," each possibly triggering a $150,000 fine.'

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/ai-industry-horrified-to-face-largest-copyright-class-action-ever-certified/

Disney Scraps Deepfake Dwayne Johnson After Lawyers Panic About The Public Domain - https://www.techdirt.com/2025/08/08/disney-scraps-deepfake-dwayne-johnson-after-lawyers-panic-about-the-public-domain/ #copyright #ai #pd

#RENTSEEKING #MONOPOLIES: Media organizations have been stealing artists for DECADES. And now they want to get licenses from AI companies - for what purpose? You guess well: GETTING RID of the artists. Gosh, how can these people for the art world be so naïve and at the same time so pretentious!!!

I can't stand poseurs who want to extract copyright licenses for any online use of "their" works. Ultimately, their world view would represent the end of things such as digital libraries (including the Internet Archive), remixes, mashups, fan fiction, and every transformative use.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/ai-industry-horrified-to-face-largest-copyright-class-action-ever-certified/

Two and a half years ago, I was still writing as the party secretary of Pirate Party Finland about the curious turning of tables on #piracy and commercial #ai

Unfortunately, no progress has been made in the direction I was prompting. We have no fairness in AI, no transparency of training data, hence no control of the tools that we're supposed to use to build our futures with.

And still no public investment in alternatives.

https://gimulnaut.wordpress.com/2023/01/13/copyright-wars-pt-2-ai-vs-the-public/
#copyright #piraten

Congratulations to my colleagues @itteam from the @bfdi .

Their project https://social.bund.de is amongst the 3 bund.de domains that #Meta found worthwhile for AI scrapping. I can only encourage all eligible public services to join this server and have a say for the training of Meta's next AI model.

Source: https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/meta-facebook-tech-copyright-privacy-whistleblower

Direct PDF link (p. 667): https://www.dropsitenews.com/api/v1/file/b3555944-e204-4f5e-9a64-e44281b19a82.pdf