Project LLM Contribution Policy

We will happily accept contributions that use LLM in their creation, as long as the following conditions are met.

1. Model is open-source.
2. Model training data is documented, is all used with written permission of the owner or is documented as public-domain.
3. Model training data is available for other parties to study and use.
4. Submitter verifies that they have reviewed and understand all code they are submitting, and can answer questions and concerns during a code review.
5. The submission meets all other project standards required of contributions.
6. Submitter acknowledges that, as a product of an LLM, they do not have copyright or other intellectual property claims on the submitted material - it is submitted as public domain content, to be used by the project as it wishes.

Please let us know when you find or create a model that can meet 1-3, and an LLM-enthused contributor who can meet 4-6.

#AI #LLM #HellFreezesOver #ethical #model #code #PublicDomain #copyright #slop

The Govt. has stepped back from its 'preferred option' of reforming copyright law to allow expanded (unrestricted) use of content after extensive opposition from the creative industries in the UK.

The next step may well be further consideration of other reforms, but we can also expect a lot of blackmail-like lobbying from AI firms claiming they will withdraw from the UK if their casual theft of content is halted... many might say: god riddance!

#AI #copyright

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/18/actors-musicians-writers-welcome-uk-u-turn-ai-copyright

Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster are suing OpenAI.

They claim ChatGPT produces "near-verbatim" copies of Britannica's ​encyclopedia entries, dictionary definitions and other content, and falsely attributes halucinations to them.

#AI #Copyright #Trademark

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/encyclopedia-britannica-sues-openai-over-ai-training-2026-03-16/

I'll just put this here for the #record in case anyone wants to #question me about it later.

I #donated with #BitCoin back in January to #AnnasArchive and now the site's knocked #offline literally.

I paid like C$120.00 for the online form of the #project just to disappear.

Yeah ok #wikipedia has them moving #domains every other day but it was a lot more stable than that before I gave them a leg up.

This is why I hate centralized #websites and hosting.

This is why #self #hosting works by connecting #dedicated #servers to the #internet as a whole.

If you use anything less, you will face more #legal challenges hosting #human #knowledge and unfortunately, it is as #simple as that.

You cannot convince me that #BigTech is not turning into #authorized #tech as it seems as though the #copyright #industry and the #torent industry has eluded to colluding with one another to obtain #rights for.

Guys, I don't know what to say anymore. I'm a huge fan of #books and #media and #free #open #source #software and I long for the day that the #government doesn't need to get a cut of everything I #download or #upload anywhere, especially for #personal #use over all.

Please do whatever you can to fight #statistical #bottlenecks where ever they appear. I want humanity to have better access to #education and #intelligence built by real people in a fair and consistent manner.

I always am striving and trying my best to be a better #human being.

Is it just me or is Valve suddenly being targeted?

- New York sues Valve over loot boxes.

- FBI launches an investigation into indie malware-infested games on Steam

Lastly:

PC Gamer: Notorious UK rights group launches legal action against Valve for distributing music in games on Steam without a license https://www.pcgamer.com/games/notorious-uk-rights-group-launches-legal-action-against-valve-for-distributing-music-in-games-on-steam-without-a-license/ #Valve #Steam #copyright

"Even worse was the suggestion by Grammarly’s A.I. version of me to replace the first sentence of the news article with an anecdotal opening describing a fictional person named Laura whose privacy had been violated.

“Laura, a patient searching for relief from a chronic condition, clicks through her hospital’s website to schedule an appointment. In just a few moments, her most private medical details — her reason for visiting, her doctor’s name and even the treatment she seeks — are quietly sent to Facebook, without her knowledge,” the bot suggested with a button allowing the user to paste that excerpt straight into the article.

Replacing a factual sentence with an imagined story about a person who doesn’t exist is not only bad editing. It’s a deception that could end my career as a journalist (or the career of any journalist who took that terrible advice).

And this is the problem with A.I. It doesn’t know truth from fiction. It doesn’t know an investigative news article from an offhand comment. It flattens all content into word associations.

What Grammarly made wasn’t a doppelgänger. As the writer Ingrid Burrington wrote on Bluesky, it was a sloppelgänger — A.I. slop masquerading as a person.

And it must be stopped."

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/opinion/ai-doppelganger-deepfake-grammarly.html

#AI #GenerativeAI #Copyright #Writing #Hallucinations

#Copyright Bullying vs. #Religious #Freedom

The government should not help a religious institution to punish or deter members from inquiring about their faith. Yet, once again, the #WatchTower #Bible and Tract Society is trying to use flimsy copyright claims to exploit the special legal tools available to copyright owners in order to unmask #anonymous online speakers.
#privacy #religion #JehovahsWitness

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/copyright-bullying-vs-religious-freedom-0

If IBM are willfully breaking copyright licensing law, which depends on contract law, why the hell should the rest of us follow it by complying with the gag order on RHEL code in their customer contracts?!?

Come to think of it, if major corporations are ignoring the spirit of copyright, they're implicitly saying it no longer matters. Maybe it's time for the rest of us to give it the middle finger too, and instruct our (presumably) democratic governments to stop enforcing it?

(5/?)

#copyright

"On Thursday, the White House posted an image with the words “make america great again” designed to imitate Pokémon’s game Pokémon Pokopia, which was released this week."

Dexerto: Nintendo responds after US government’s Pokopia post goes viral https://www.dexerto.com/pokemon/nintendo-responds-after-us-governments-pokopia-post-goes-viral-3330737/ @Dexerto

Time: Why Pokemon Is Pushing Back Against the White House https://time.com/7382839/pokemon-dhs-white-house-trump-social-media-memes-ice/ @time @time #copyright #Nintendo

@baldur with the recent supreme court ruling on works created by llms being unable to be copyrighted...

#Copyright is for humans.

I ain't a lawyer. But that's an obvious problem for #vibecoding and #agenticai works.

An odd way to come at it for some, but there it is. From #SCOTUS.

https://www.theverge.com/policy/887678/supreme-court-ai-art-copyright

Hey! Good news everyone! The #SupremeCourt, by declining to overrule the #Copyright Office, has declared that #AI art cannot be copyrighted.

It's bigger than just Thaler's case though. (links below) What this means is that NO AI created work can be copyrighted. Not code, not verbiage, not art, not anything.

Only human created works are eligible for copyright, so sayeth the High Court.

Cory (@pluralistic) does a fantastic job of explaining the details and rounding up links. As he always does. Where he finds the hours in the day, I will never know. ;)

https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/03/its-a-trap-2/

Archive link to #ArtNet because something on the page was blowing up my browser, but they have more details on the case itself, and the "art" in question which just saved real artists: https://archive.md/bsyrQ

It looks like - at least in the US - software generated with an LLM can't be copyrighted. This includes software where it's not possible to discern which parts have been created using LLMs and which have not.

This applies to Open Source as well. Those licenses we use to make sure our code isn't used in various ways we don't approve of become invalid if we don't have any copyright to begin with.

IANAL - have at it.

#llm #copyright

RiP!: A Remix Manifesto (2006)

1. Culture always builds on the past.
2. The past always tries to control the future.
3. Our future is becoming less free.
4. To build free societies you must limit the control of the past.

https://archive.org/details/rip-a-remix-manifesto-8040182

#copyright #piracy #intellectualproperty

🎬📚 Just dropped: MYSTERY COPYRIGHT THEATER 2026!

Two of the @AuthorsAlliance crew talk back to the screen about works that entered the public domain, untangling the weird, wild, and confusing world of copyright law with irreverent but relevant commentary.

Watch the full short 👇
https://archive.org/details/mct2026

#PublicDomain #Copyright #OpenAccess #Libraries #CreativeReuse #PublicDomainDay

Cory Doctorow, a fellow #Canadian, writes a lot of interesting stuff. I agree with his positions on many things, but not all. For example, I'm about ten thousand percent behind his opposition to anti-circumvention laws; I was one of the thousands of Canadians who wrote to the government opposing the introduction of the law many years ago.

However, his blog on Thursday, staking out the position that opposition to "AI" (LLM) is just geeky #purity culture is somewhere between "flat-out wrong" and "disingenuous at best".

My position against #LLM #slop everywhere is both because of #ethical #concerns and practical ones. There does not exist an LLM right now that was built and trained ethically; they are all statistical plagiarism machines, and speaking as someone whose #prose and #code has been plagiarized by every single one of them, that pisses me off, royally.

That's a show-stopper for me, but even if it wasn't, the #practical concerns - that the output is #untrustworthy, that the #references can't be checked, that the #code is #insecure and #unmaintainable, that the #licensing status is unclear, that it's a #copyright violation - are *also* enough to rule out #LLMs at present.

He then presents a #strawman argument - all tech is fruit of the poisoned tree, the #transistor was invented by a racist, etc. But William Shockley is not designing or manufacturing any of the transistors / #ICs I use today.

So, @doctorow - I gotta say I disagree. And that's fine.

@xssfox well, #PatentTrolling is common in "#SueHappy" juristictions like the #USA where #settlement (even if the #patent is clearly invalid and wrong) is cheaper, faster and less problematic than standing one's ground.

• And that's not even talking about frivolous litigation solely to exhaust the opponents' finances (see #Thiel v. #Gawker]…https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdrange/2016/06/21/peter-thiels-war-on-gawker-a-timeline/

#USpol #Copywrong #Copyright #CopyrightMafia #SLAPP #SLAPPing #PatentMafia

We're all sick of this AI shit

Hear RIck giving a well balanced opinion about spotify artificially pushing BS LLM generated crappy music

It's made from stolen real artist work and fragmented mixed regurgetated to this crappy song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XGct4rbYfI

#LLM #AI #Slop #bad #music #listening #crap #bullshit #stolen #copyright #ownershit #ownership #spotify #fake #followers #royalties #streaming #instagram #push #artificial

"#News #publishers limit #InternetArchive access due to #AI scraping concerns."
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/news-publishers-limit-internet-archive-access-due-to-ai-scraping-concerns/

PS: I'm one who thinks AI training on copyrighted content is #FairUse and (separate point) even desirable in the case of academic research.
https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/113443473594224752

But this kind of training will create huge collateral damage --indirectly through publisher action -- if it diminishes the @internetarchive.

#Copyright #Journalism

Update. It's happening. "News Publishers Are Now Blocking The Internet Archive, And We May All Regret It."
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/13/news-publishers-are-now-blocking-the-internet-archive-and-we-may-all-regret-it/

@mmasnick is right: "In our rush to punish #AI companies, we’re destroying public goods that serve everyone…We’re sacrificing the historical record not because of proven harm, but because publishers are worried about what might happen. That’s a hell of a tradeoff."

#Copyright #InternetArchive #Journalism #Publishers
@internetarchive

"What if there was a way for a business to transform any conduct it disliked into a felony, harnessing the power of the state to threaten anyone who acted in a way that displeased the company with a long prison sentence and six-figure fines?

Surprise! That actually exists! It's called Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the "#anticircumvention" clause, which establishes five-year sentences and $500k fines for anyone who bypasses an "effective access control" for a copyrighted work."

Let Cory (@pluralistic) explain it. He's good at explaining #enshittification, or as the rest of us call it, the 21st goddamn century.

As an aside, there should be a branch of the Judicial tree that is staffed by people who understand technology and the implications therein. (Just sayin, as someone who had thousands of pages of material stolen "fairly" for LLM.) These courts don't understand what they're ruling on.

https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/07/aimsters-revenge/#effective-means-of-access-control

#DMCA #copyright

AP: Hollywood groups condemn ByteDance’s AI video generator, claiming copyright infringement https://apnews.com/article/ai-seedance-bytedance-hollywood-copyright-7e445388401d172c6bf51d0d42aa4f24 @AssociatedPress #TikTok #copyright

News Publishers Are Now Blocking The @internetarchive, And We May All Regret It - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/13/news-publishers-are-now-blocking-the-internet-archive-and-we-may-all-regret-it/ we will, we will #copyright #ai

It's not your content, Google. You stole it from others.

Futurism: Google Says People Are Copying Its AI Without Its Permission, Much Like It Scraped Everybody’s Data Without Asking to Create Its AI in the First Place https://futurism.com/future-society/google-copying-ai-permission @Futurism #Google #Gemini #copyright

#DMCA Subpoenas Can’t Be Used for Foreign #Piracy Lawsuits, Court Rules - https://torrentfreak.com/dmca-subpoenas-cant-be-used-for-foreign-piracy-lawsuits-court-rules/ #copyright interesting ruling

Bravo to the Spanish Supreme Court for its Sept 2025 decision establishing four important principles: "[1] Access to source code can be needed to verify automated government decisions;
[2] “Intellectual property rights” do not automatically block transparency; [3] Security concerns must be balanced against democratic accountability; and [4] Transparency is especially critical for systems affecting social rights."
https://civio.app.box.com/s/2gcrxy4mkpzg49yqkmuaj9z7c44jl7ta

h/t #FSFE (@fsfe) for this article about it.
https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260205-01.html

#Code #Copyright #IP #Law #OpenSource #Spain

@blogdiva generally the #CopyrightMafia is bad - period!

• #Copyright needs to be dialed back to 25 years flat!

We don't allow #Patents to last lifetime + 70 years either...

#BDSUSA #Copywrong

Hachette v. Google: Shadow Libraries, AI Training and the Reckoning of the Inevitable Pirates https://musictechpolicy.com/2026/01/24/hachette-v-google-shadow-libraries-ai-training-and-the-reckoning-of-the-inevitable-pirates/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_content=muz4now%2Fmagazine%2FCopyright%20and%20other%20IP&utm_medium=mastodon #Copyright

"Incredibly enough, there is a really simple way to [protect artists from #AIpredation]…

The #CopyrightOffice has maintained—correctly—that #AIgenerated works cannot be copyrighted… That is why the “monkey selfie” is in the #publicdomain. #Copyright is only awarded to works of human creative expression that are fixed in a tangible medium.

…they have defended this principle vigorously in court, repeatedly winning judgments to uphold it." @pluralistic

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/18/tech-ai-bubble-burst-reverse-centaur

"the Copyright Office has maintained – correctly – that AI-generated works cannot be copyrighted, because #copyright is exclusively for humans...

if Getty or #Disney or Universal or Hearst newspapers use #AI to generate works – then anyone else can take those works, copy them, sell them or give them away for nothing. And the only thing those companies hate more than paying creative workers, is having other people take their stuff without permission."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/18/tech-ai-bubble-burst-reverse-centaur

#Art #Artist #News

Alt...

Text from article: We need to protect artists from AI predation, not just create a new way for artists to be mad about their impoverishment. Incredibly enough, there is a really simple way to do that. After more than 20 years of being consistently wrong and terrible for artists’ rights, the US Copyright Office has finally done something gloriously, wonderfully right. All through this AI bubble, the Copyright Office has maintained – correctly – that AI-generated works cannot be copyrighted, because copyright is exclusively for humans. That is why the “monkey selfie” is in the public domain. Copyright is only awarded to works of human creative expression that are fixed in a tangible medium. And not only has the Copyright Office taken this position, they have defended it vigorously in court, repeatedly winning judgments to uphold this principle. The fact that every AI-created work is in the public domain means that if Getty or Disney or Universal or Hearst newspapers use AI to generate works – then anyone else can take those works, copy them, sell them or give them away for nothing. And the only thing those companies hate more than paying creative workers, is having other people take their stuff without permission.

Hey Washington, there's a profoundly bad law making its way through the state level.

This law, will require ALL 3d printers to send copies of the files you print directly to the government to be check against a database of "banned shapes".

Literally turning your 3d printer into spyware. And if you don't voluntarily turn your printer into a spy, you will be a class C Felon.

This law affects ALL CNC machines, not just 3dps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS-9ISzMhBM

#3dprinting #pnw #copyright #machining #WA

Colin Hay ‘strenuously disapproves’ use of Down Under at March for Australia rallies https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jan/22/land-down-under-music-march-for-australia-rallies

Former Men at Work frontman, who was born in Scotland and emigrated to Australia, tells anti-immigration protestors, ‘Go write your own song, leave mine alone’

#copyright #music #moralrights #auslaw #auspol

“…Stanford and Yale researchers found compelling evidence that AI models are actually copying all that data, not “learning” from it. Specifically, four prominent LLMs — OpenAI’s GPT-4.1, Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro, xAI’s Grok 3, and Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet — happily reproduced lengthy excerpts from popular — and protected — works, with a stunning degree of accuracy.” #AI #copyright #books #publishing
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-industry-recall-copyright-books

'Until we repeal the anti-circumvention law, we can’t reverse-engineer the US’s cloud software, whether it’s a database, a word processor or a tractor, in order to swap out proprietary, American code for robust, open, auditable alternatives that will safeguard our digital sovereignty.' @doctorow https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/10/trump-beginning-of-end-enshittification-make-tech-good-again #trade #tariffs #technology #TPMs #copyright #uslaw #uspol

Excellent argument from @pluralistic.
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/#the-new-coalition

"Thanks to Trump's incontinent belligerence, we are on the cusp of a 'Post-American Internet,' a new digital nervous system for the 21st century. An internet that we can build without worrying about America's demands and priorities…The US trade representative has forced every one of its trading partners to adopt #anticircumvention law, to facilitate the extraction of their own people's data and money by American firms…But there's a…response… that's just sitting there, begging to be tried: what about repealing anticircumvention law?"

#Copyright #DRM #RightToRepair #TPM #USTR

This may be considered #HotTakes by some, I consider these #based: (no ragebait inteded!)

If you have a problem with these, please kindly fuck off in silence!

This list is non-exhaustive...

• #NoHumanIsillegal: #FerriesNotFrontex!
• #PNCHNZS! Being a racist, fascist or otherwise shit person is a choice. People can choose to deradicalize, but not 'choose' not to be targeted by Neonazis!
• #NSAfDverbotSofort - no excuses!
• #TransRightsAreHumanRights
• #HousingFirst, cuz #HumanRights are not negotiable, but precondition to even consider negotiations!
• #UBI instead of #MeansTesting; Cuz survival is not optional!
• #Education is a #HumanRight and should be provided to anyone without any paywalling or charges. This includes access to #Textbooks, which should be provided #DRM-free. All education material should be publicly available and it's creation and updates be paid by the public just like schools.
• #ClothesHaveNoGender
• #PublicTransport should be #free, #accessible and publicly funded and run.
• All #infrastructure is a natural monopoly and should be publicly run and financed solely by either transit fees or public spending.
• #accessibility should be mandatory without exceptions. Paywalling it should be criminalized as a hatecrime.
• Every #home should have access to #DrinkingWater, Sewage Handling, #electricity and #fiber #internet. IDGAF if it's at some remote island or desert oasis!
• #HealthCare is a #HumanRight, not a commodity!
• #Politicans should have to obey the same #laws re: secondary income as #PublicServants and be barred from recieving any other #compensation, #bonuses or have any other income beyond the compensation for their post.
• #Politicans should only be paid #MinimumWage!Wage
• Everyone should have to contribute to #SocialSecurity programs and in return, everyone gets eligible. That means no exceptions for #billionaires and other rich people. If I have to afford ~ 20% of my paycheck for #healthcare then so can all the #Banksters!
• #MinimumWage must be able to afford not mere survival, but actually be sufficient to afford #downpayment on a #home and not just #rent. It should also be automatically be adjusted with #inflation and not be a political bargaining chip!
• Denying people access to legal #work is a crime against humanity. People should have a right to fair and non-discriminatory access to employment regardless of legal status.
• #StockTrading should be regulated as #Gambling.
• Advertising Gambling or using Gambling / #PayToLoose / "#PayToWin" / #P2W mechanics to minors should be as illegal as advertising cigarettes and liquor to them.
• Banning or age restricting #LGBTQIA* content as "#AdultContent" should be illegal. #QueerErasure is indefensible. If you're to prudish to accept that #LoveIsLove then that's a "You" Problem!
• #Cyberfascism needs to be outlawed and Corporations like #Palantir need to be disbanded, their assets stripped and their employees jailed for crimes against humanity. They are morally indefensible!
• #BanBillionaires, strip them off their assets and wealth and redistribute it. #Billionaires should be sentenced to #CommunityService for life as means to (at least partially) undo harm caused.
• #SuperUselessVehicles should be disincentivized and instead any #incentives and #subsidies should be given only to #PersonalLightVehicles of classes #L2e, #L5e, #L6e & #L7e.
• #SexworkIsWork!
• #CSAM is indefensible and authorities that shutdown Pedo Forums should be mandated to #delete [and report] all such content at the hosters and get them to delete it. This includes Kiwi Farms which got fired by Gandi [french registrar] for hosting CSAM!
• It should be illegal to enforce foreign laws overseas. Yes this includes "#Embargos" from the #USA!
• #Trump is a fascist POS and a bootlicker of #Putin!
• #FuckICE
• #MethanolFuelcell > #LithiumCobaltBattery
• #Tabs > #Spaces
• #TSV > #CSV > #MicrosoftExcel
• #Markdown > #RTF
• #OpenDocument > #OOXML
• #PDF > #MicrosoftWord
• #git > #subversion
• #IRC & #Mumble, #MailingList > #discord
• #XMPP+#OMEMO > any proprietary messenger
• #PGP/MIME acceptance should be mandatory per law for all #eMails in #business and towards public offices
• Every System that has a #clock inside has to self-adjust it correctly without user intervention. I don't care if it uses a time signal like DCF77, GNSS or NTP. Computers must syncronize their hardware clock to [Unixtime](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time) regardless of the used OS
• #Police should only be allowed to carry and use what law-abiding citizens are to. If you don't trust your neighbour with a #gun, why would you trust a stranger who doesn't even have to evidence proper storage, training, proficiency and isn't subject to due diligence?
• #QualifiedImmunity is #PoliceState horeshite and must never be allowed and retroactively canned. If you don't want #accountability or #consequences for those in power, you are a bootlicker.
• Long-lasting peace in the #MiddleEast will most likely only happen if a unified #laicist nation compromising of #Israel and #Palestine gets built. It's just currently not intended to happen by both sides!
• #Ukraine is the #LitmusTest for #EU & #NATO. If Ukraine doesn't win beyond the #StatusQuoAnteBellum (1994-2011) and doesn't get EU & NATO membership it'll either be destroyed by #Russia in Putin's neo-czarist ambitions and thus will legitimize & normalize the Russian #CrimeOfAggression, which will then focus on #Baltics and espechally #Finland. Already the western #cowardice of not following through on the #BudapestMemorandum puts the #NPT and the trustworthyness of the USA, #UK and The West in general into question.
• A #TotalEmbargo against Russia is long overdue - including a #SeaBlockade, not just against the #ShadowFleet which poses a statistically inevitable risk for the #envoirment!
• #NuclearPower is not #renewable and using precious radioactive elements to boil water to spin a turbine is an insult to #physics! #Renewables should be mandatory and we can talk about #Fusion once #ITER actually evidently works and is able to sustain net positive energy output into the grid.
• "#AI" is #WastefulComputing and should be considered an #EnvoirmentalCrime and #CrimeAgainstHumanity, with all the prosecution it entails!
  
• The only people that have a 'right' to be 'proud' of their #citizenship are those that actually had to put in effort to get #naturalized. People who won the #BirthLottery are disqualified.
• Also anyone who is "proud" of their citizenship by birth evidently has achieved nothing on their own worth to be proud of! Even if it's just graduating school, driving license, forklift certification or some kind of art.
• We need #RightToRepair, not only but espechally for #electronics! This includes tight mandates to provide #parts, #tools, #documentation and #support under #FRAND [fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory] terms.
• #Patents on #Software, espechally #GameMechanics, should be illegal. No #patent should be issued without evidence of it being a genuine, new #invention with a demonstrable prototype. If #Kickstarter wouldn't accept it, then neither should any #PatentOffice!
• #Patents of lifeforms and DNA have to be outlawed.
• #Copyright to something should cease the moment the copyright holder refuses to offer the copyrighted work under FRAND terms. If buying isn't ownership than #piracy isn't #theft. Also #OneTimePurchase options [for a specific version] should be mandatory by law and #subscriptions only be allowed for products and services that actually incur costs to upkeep (i.e. bandwith and storage for hosting/streaming). Designing something as "#LiveService" when it has no reason (i.e. refusing to sell physical copies) to should be deemed a fraudulent circumvention of it.
• "#ClientsideAnticheat" is #malware and needs to be prosecuted as such. Any "#AntiCheat" should be Server-Sided only.
• #PriceGouging must be prosecuted harder, espechally when it comes to #utilities.
• Just like #FuelPrices at a #GasStation, so should #ChargingStations be mandated to publish their pricing publicly in realtime and not discriminate customers!
• Everyone should have a #RightToBanking without discrimination. Any closure of accounts must be legitimized by actual criminal activity (i.e. money laundering, fraud, terrorism financing, ...) and go through due process with appeals.
• Everyone should have a right to free, unseizeable #ID documents without mandating #biometrics or other privacy invasions! These should be eligible as Travel #Passport and people should have global #FreedomOfMovement only restricted by an actual, individual judge ruling that went through proper oversight and appeals. Duplicate Issues to avoid Visa Conflicts (with duplicate Serial Numbers!) should be offered and granted upon request.
• #Gender does not belong into ID documents! Just like weight, hair colour, religion, occupation and address don't!

Zu #Copyright und #generativerKI:

„Da würden The Velvet Underground doch womöglich ein Entlohnungssystem wie bei den Streamingdiensten vorziehen.“

Ich kenne keinen Musiker, der an streaming reich geworden wäre. An Streaming werden nur die Plattformen reich. Und das beste Argument gegen Detlef Diedrichsen ist wohl, dass die Plattformen jetzt KI-Musik aus dem, was die Leute mögen, erzeugen und das ist dann „neu“ und die Plattformen müssen niemandem mehr etwas dafür bezahlen. Und was rauskommt ist Mittelmaß, das einer Bubble gefällt. Ohne Ecken. Ich finde das alles nur schrecklich.

In der Wissenschaft diskutieren wir jetzt verschärft mit KI generierte Texte. @dingemansemark hat mich auf den Begriff „automatisiertes Plagiat“ hingewiesen. Das ist es was es ist.

Wenn Bands andere Lieder covern, bekommen die noch was dafür. Wenn es nur der Einfluss ist, der sichtbar wird, so bleibt zumindest noch der Verweis in der Diskussion: Ah, The Jesus and Mary Chain haben sich von Velvet Underground inspirieren lassen. Sie mögen sie. Undenkbar dagegen: ChatGPT hat von Velvet Underground geklaut.

„Ob diese Scheißmusik nun von Menschen oder KIs produziert wird, ist doch eigentlich herzlich egal.“

Ich teile die Verachtung für Scheißmusik, aber es ist nicht egal.

Selbst Dieter Bohlen, der seinen einzigen Hit auf 6 LPs immer wieder veröffentlicht hat, soll dafür Geld bekommen.

https://www.taz.de/!6134508

@SuperDicq

There (kinda) is a solution to combat #AiSlop
And its...GREED

Only human generated #art can be #copyright

So if corpos want to keep control over their logo or IP, it has to be made by a human.

CRTC Incurs Fourth Lawsuit Over Online Streaming Act (MPAC)

The CRTC has, once again, been sued over the Online Streaming Act. This time, by the Motion Picture Association Canada and several others.

https://www.freezenet.ca/crtc-incurs-fourth-lawsuit-over-online-streaming-act-mpac/

#Business #Censorship #Copyright #LawAndTechnology #News #Amazon #BillC11 #Canada #CRTC #lawsuit #MPA #Netflix #OnlineStreamingAct #Paramount #Sony #Universal

Online News Act, Online Streaming Act Challenged in CUSMA Negotiations

The US is continuing to up the pressure to get a repeal of the Online News Act and the Online Streaming Act.

https://www.freezenet.ca/online-news-act-online-streaming-act-challenged-in-cusma-negotiations/

#Business #Censorship #Copyright #International #News #BillC11 #BillC18 #Canada #CUSMA #OnlineNewsAct #OnlineStreamingAct #US #USMCA

Amazon suggests authors remove DRM from their titles, for ‘convenience’. But they neglect to remind authors that Digital Rights Management (DRM) protects Author Copyright under US, EU and French Copyright Laws, preventing others from copying or reusing their content.

#Books #Authors #Copyright #DRM #Amazon #Piracy

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An analogue clock that reads 4 o’clock rests beside a stack of hardcover books on a green lawn. One of them is open, with the shade of a tree beginning to cover the pages.

@pluralistic and now you know.why I.think.#Copyright should be limited to a flat 25 years with no exceptions!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE6PWjm6Sk4

#Denmark takes a Viking swing at #VPN-enabled piracy - https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/15/denmark_vpn_ban/ denmark placing #copyright above #humanrights

@aliceamour For real, #Copyright as of now is a shitshow!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzk03NNwQz4

With #Disney licensing its characters to OpenAI/Sora, I’m convinced more than ever that applying #copyright laws to AI will only lead to the strengthening of IP-hoarding incumbents. It will not slow down AI; it will only create another class of parasitic gatekeepers that monetize labor without paying workers.

Disney is not interested in enforcing its copyright to *stop* AI; it’s interested in enforcing its copyright to *profit* from AI.

https://www.humancode.us/2024/05/15/copyright-ai.html

There's a new government of Canada official petition to bring the same rights to likeness that Denmark recently passed to protect people from their body or voice being used by AI without their consent.

If you're Canadian, sign and share!

https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7002

#DigitalPrivacy #Privacy #AI #AIethics #CApoli #Canada #CopyrightLaw #Copyright

US Supreme Court leans toward internet service providers in copyright battle with nation’s music industry https://edition.cnn.com/2025/12/01/politics/supreme-court-record-labels-internet #SCOTUS #copyright #safeharbor #DMCA

RE: https://privacysafe.social/@profdiggity/115651821195510025

Our @profdiggity with experts from @YaleISP , @bkc and across US law and tech contributed to this #SCOTUS amicus brief on #AI and #copyright https://psafe.ly/7ShfXu

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NEW: Our #SCOTUS amicus brief on #AI and #copyright 👇

https://psafe.ly/7ShfXu

Thanks to my colleagues at #YaleISP, @lessig at @bkc , and many others across #law and #tech for their support & contributions.

Our brief warns that excluding AI generated works from copyright puts creativity and #innovation at risk. Thread 🧵

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NEW: Our #SCOTUS amicus brief on #AI and #copyright 👇

https://psafe.ly/7ShfXu

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It turns out that a lot of "impossible" things are really just fights you'd rather not have.

@pluralistic nails it. https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/28/disenshittification-nation/

#CDNPoli #Canada #copyright #enshittification #disenshittification

Before the automobile industry invented the catalytic converter, the costs of reducing air pollution seemed astronomical, enough to bankrupt the entire industry. After they invented the catalytical converter, the costs were manageable. And they only invented it because they were faced with the threat of being shut down.

From Is Climate Change An Externality

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #law #copyright #pollution #climate #innovation

From yesterday. Reason #1 for disliking AI: it's based on stolen data and copyrighted IPs - still.

“Somebody said: ‘Man, somebody done typed your name in the AI and made a white version of you. They just used the Blanco, not the Brown.”

AP: AI country hit ‘Walk My Walk’ built on Blanco Brown’s sound sparks questions of attribution, ethics https://apnews.com/article/walk-my-walk-blanco-brown-2c9bbde6e88434365640c50e2998cfe2 @AssociatedPress #copyright

Hollywood Reporter: OpenAI Loses Key Discovery Battle as It Cedes Ground to Authors in AI Lawsuits. “In a controversial decision that was appealed by OpenAI on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Ona Wang found that OpenAI must hand over documents revealing the company’s motivations for deleting the datasets. OpenAI’s in-house legal team will be deposed. At stake: Billions of dollars and, […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/30/hollywood-reporter-openai-loses-key-discovery-battle-as-it-cedes-ground-to-authors-in-ai-lawsuits/

Gary K Wolf, creator of Roger Rabbit, has regained control of the copyright to the Roger Rabbit character universe, through the use of the Copyright Reversion Rights, something I never knew existed in US copyright law.

The Copyright Reversion Rights law says that a creator who signed away the rights to their work product is entitled to claim those rights back after 35 years, by notifying the US Copyright Office.

Fascinating!

#art #cartoons #copyright

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/business/gary-k-wolf-roger-rabbit-property-256596.html

The Ontario Superior Court of Justice concluded that it has jurisdiction in the copyright lawsuit against OpenAI

https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/national/news-publishers-copyright-lawsuit-against-openai-cleared-to-go-ahead-in-ontario/article_68659a57-694c-5770-8374-da50d590740f.html
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La Cour supérieure de justice de l’Ontario a conclu qu’elle a jurisdiction dans la poursuite au sujet des droits d’auteur contre OpenAI

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#Canada #OpenAI #AI #IA #ArtificialIntelligence #IntelligenceArtificielle #Copyright #DroitsDAuteur

lmfao.

Okay.

So Arrow Distribution gave me a strike against the film Hero of City.

Hero of City is an unlicensed remake of Reservoir Dogs.

Arrow Distribution does not own Hero of City.

Arrow Distribution allegedly owns the rights to City on Fire.

Reservoir Dogs is a City on Fire remake (again, unlicensed.)

So Arrow Distribution gave me a copyright strike on my personal youtube channel for uploading a 2001 Hong Kong remake of an American film they do not own the rights to, because that American film they do not own the rights to is a remake of an 80s Hong Kong film they *do* own the rights to.

#copyright

Everything is fine.

How manipulated #copyright

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SH-u8HXLvJI

A California federal judge ruled Thursday that three authors suing Anthropic over copyright infringement can bring a class action lawsuit representing all U.S. writers whose work was allegedly downloaded from libraries of pirated works.

Even though I am probably one of the affected authors, lawsuits like this make me nervous. If the decision comes down in favor of Anthropic it sets a precedent for repeating what they and others have done. I am very skeptical that these issues would be appropriately settled in the courts; we need proper regulation of this industry as of two years ago. It's likewise worth noting that OpenAI claims at least 10x the traffic of Anthropic's various products.

Also, I've been in these kinds of lawsuits before. We'll end up getting a coupon for $1 off use of Claude if the class wins, or something comparably absurd. (*)

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #copyright #theft #lawsuit #Anthropic #Claude

(*) Years ago I was inadvertently part of a class action lawsuit against Poland Spring because I bought their water during the period covered by the lawsuit. They were found guilty of deceptive marketing because they were mixing tap water in with the "spring water" they claimed to be selling. I was awarded a $1, maybe $5, coupon to buy Poland "Spring" water.