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#Copyright

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AAKL

Bungie's copyright pillage was extensive. If you missed this.

"Clearly my work was good enough to pillage for ideas and plaster all over their game without pay or attribution.”

"I don’t have the resources nor the energy to spare to pursue this legally but I have lost count of the number of times a major company has deemed it easier to pay a designer to imitate or steal my work than to write me an email.”

Kotaku: Artist Shocked to Find Her Poster Designs From 2017 In Bungie's Marathon kotaku.com/marathon-bungie-art @Kotaku #copyright

Kotaku · Artist Shocked To Find Her Poster Designs From 2017 In Bungie's Marathon: 'A Major Company Has Deemed It EasieBy Ethan Gach
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Pivot to AI [RSS]

Latest AI-hallucinated legal filing, from AI vendor Anthropic

Back in 2023, we wrote how lawyers were filing briefs they’d written with ChatGPT. They thought it was a search engine, not a lying engine — and the bot would proceed to cite a whole pile of supporting cases that didn’t exist! And then the judge would sanction them into the sun. It’s obvious that […]

pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/18/lat

Pivot to AI · Latest AI-hallucinated legal filing, from AI vendor AnthropicBack in 2023, we wrote how lawyers were filing briefs they’d written with ChatGPT. They thought it was a search engine, not a lying engine — and the bot would proceed to cite a whole pile of suppor…
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TorrentFreak RSS

Copyright Claims Board is “Ineffective and Costly,” Watchdog Groups Say

torrentfreak.com/copyright-cla

torrentfreak.comCopyright Claims Board is “Ineffective and Costly,” Watchdog Groups Say * TorrentFreakResponding to an inquiry from the U.S. Copyright Office, a coalition of watchdog groups has flagged various problems with the Copyright Claims Board. They label the three-year-old small claims tribunal as "ineffective" and a poor use of taxpayer money. The groups highlight a high volume of dismissed claims, concerns over the opt-out procedure, and an alarming 60% default rate in cases that do reach a final determination.
#LawandPolitics#smallclaims#copyright
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cy
The reason artists don't deserve to extract money from people for copying their work is the same reason artists don't get to hold little old ladies at gunpoint and steal their purses. You have to make a living somehow, right? Wrong. Nobody should have to make a living. Artists are being wronged because people are being wronged. We're capable of taking care of everyone, but we falsely believe that the only thing that matters is whether someone can afford our help. Hurting them for no reason, just to force money to be worth more than it is. So if an artist can't make a living without engaging in unsavory activities such as reporting someone for sharing your work without permission, they should still be able to live, because it's our duty to make sure everyone can live, and we're failing at that badly, to prop up the filthy rich.

#art #copyright #welfare #wellfare #rant
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Matthew Rimmer

The writer and poet Robert Macfarlane argues that copyright laws should protect nature theguardian.com/environment/20
"As I think you know, [the Earth rights scholar] César [Rodríguez-Garavito], [the mycologist] Giuliana [Furci] and [the musician] Cosmo [Sheldrake] and I, as well as, of course, the Los Cedros cloud forest, have brought a case in the Ecuador court system to recognise the moral authorship of the cloud forest in the song that was written in the course of the book’s research [called Song of the Cedars]." #copyright #authorship #nature #animals

The Guardian · Robert Macfarlane: ‘Sometimes I felt as if the river was writing me’By Jonathan Watts
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Platypus

Moin #pnpde, bitte helft mir mal kurz auf die Sprünge:

Gibt es eine "Fan-Lizenz" bzw. Lizenz für unkommerzielle Nutzung/Veröffentlichungen vom Pegasus Verlag, insbesondere für #CallOfCthulhu? Ich suche mich tot, aber kann nichts finden.

Ich weiß, dass Chaosium eine hat, aber will mich ja auf die deutsche Übersetzung beziehen. Weiß also nicht, ob sich das einfach überträgt.

#Copyright#Homebrewing#ttrpg
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

Although I'm an avid supporter of transparency, It's a bit annoying that copyright holders only want the disclosure of all copyrighted works used for AI training of LLMs to extract rents from AI companies. And this regardless of the size, not-for-profit nature, and goals of the company/project. Media moguls and their stooges are always yelling: "PAY! PAY! PAY!" I'm sick and tired of all this blackmailing and complaining.

If you can prove that a chatbot can generate every time exact copies of your works using the same prompt, by all means go ahead and demand a license - but only for large companies. If not, please shut up or admit that you're just another seller of commodities and you don't believe in the non-material value of your art. Art works that are able to appeal to spiritual and aesthetic can generate bountiful positive externalities in the medium and long term.

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"Ministers have used an arcane parliamentary procedure to block an amendment to the data bill that would require artificial intelligence companies to disclose their use of copyright-protected content.

The government stripped the transparency amendment, which was backed by peers in the bill’s reading in the House of Lords last week, out of the draft text by invoking financial privilege, meaning there is no budget available for new regulations, during a Commons debate on Wednesday afternoon.

The amendment, which would have required tech companies to reveal which copyrighted material is used in their models, was tabled by the crossbench peer Beeban Kidron and was passed by 272 votes to 125 in a Lords debate last week.

There were 297 MPs who voted in favour of removing the amendment, while 168 opposed."

theguardian.com/technology/202

The Guardian · Ministers block Lords bid to make AI firms declare use of copyrighted contentBy Rachel Hall
#UK#Copyright#RentSeeking
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