Parents use AI to remove school photo watermarks, leaving photographers unpaid #artificialintelligence #copyright #schoolphotography

Parents use AI to remove school photo watermarks, leaving photographers unpaid #artificialintelligence #copyright #schoolphotography
It is unlawful, unethical, and immoral for universities (or others) to violate intellectual property rights. Bournemouth University @bournemouthuni.bsky.social disgracefully presented my copyrighted property as their own creation. Read the details: scottgraffius.com/blog/files/b... #Copyright #IPLaw
An ordinary game dev releasing a Tetris-like game gets a cease and desist. Imagine if a Black developer did the same. The outcome likely involves legal trouble and financial ruin. Tetris is a tough opponent. #dev #copyright
Allegation: Round Hill Music sues Anthropic, alleging the books it torrented from LibGen included hundreds containing Round Hill's lyrics and compositions
Court order: Bartz v. Anthropic settlement: first round of payments expected on or before November 15, 2026, under a court-approved website update
Company filing: Anthropic says it halted a 2022 training run to remove LibGen and PiLiMi books, and asks a court to declare its copying of an opt-out author's book fair use
Allegation: An author who opted out of the Bartz settlement sues Anthropic on his own in Massachusetts over the LibGen copy of his book
Allegation: News publishers ask the court to give the Justice Department's fair-use statement no weight, saying it ignored the case record and the Copyright Office
Your #Book Could Get You #Sued
(And Most #Authors Don't Know Why)
#Quoted a book, copied a #songlyric, used a #Bibletranslation, referenced a famous #brand, or included someone else's #content?
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#legalissues #bookpublishing #copyright #selfpublishing #manuscript
Court ruling: Kadrey v. Meta: judge rules training Llama on these thirteen authors' books was fair use, on a record with no evidence of market harm
La Commission Européenne demande notre avis sur le droit d'auteur face aux technologies et à l'IA, faites tourner !
Court ruling: Kadrey v. Meta, 2023: judge dismisses every claim except the one for copying the authors' books to train LLaMA
Court order: Two individual defendants, Guillaume Lample and Joelle Pineau, are dismissed without prejudice from Hobbs v. Meta
Company filing: Meta's answer in Hobbs v. Meta admits downloading LibGen by direct download and by torrent, and that some data was uploaded
Reported: ROSS Intelligence reportedly plans to ask the Supreme Court to review the Third Circuit ruling that its AI training was not fair use
Company filing: Joint filing: authors who opted out of the Bartz settlement and Anthropic agree to private mediation, to be held by June 14, 2027
Court order: Magistrate judge denies bid by authors and publishers suing Meta to get torrenting, licensing and market evidence from OpenAI and Anthropic
Defendant's filing (argument): Dario Amodei asks the court to dismiss the music publishers' direct torrenting claim against him; Anthropic moves against the output and CMI claims only