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China Daily 01 Nov 2024
Dongguan - the nation's "capital of trendy toys" - introduced a new loan, enabling toy companies to use their intellectual properties as collateral, during the 14th China International Animation Copyright Fair held on Oct 26.
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Digital replicas: The double-edged sword of generative AI

Mail Guardian South Africa 30 Oct 2024
The Copyright Amendment Bill includes an exception from copyright protections for “fair use” and scholarship, teaching and education, as well as extending the rights of authors, artists and performers.
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Meta reportedly building AI search engine to cut reliance on Google, Bing

New York Post 28 Oct 2024
... queries, using its Bing search engine ... Scraping web data to train AI models and search engines, however, has raised concerns about copyright infringement and fair compensation for content creators.
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From Rupert Murdoch to Thom Yorke: the growing backlash to AI

The Observer 25 Oct 2024
The stars’ statement is a concerted effort to challenge the idea that creative works can be used as training data without recompense on the grounds of “fair use” – a US legal term meaning permission from the copyright owner is not needed.
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OpenAI Whistleblower Disgusted That His Job Was to Vacuum Up Copyrighted Data to Train Its Models

Futurism 24 Oct 2024
As Balaji sees it, because ChatGPT and other OpenAI products have become so heavily commercialized, OpenAI's practice of scraping online material en masse to feed its data-hungry AI models no longer satisfies the criteria of the fair use doctrine.
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International stars - including author Sir Ian Rankin and Radiohead singer Thom Yorke - call for...

The Daily Mail 23 Oct 2024
... a breach of copyright ... Mr Newton-Rex resigned as head of audio at tech firm Stability AI last year over its claim that accessing copyrighted material to train AI models was ‘fair use’, a US legal term.
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Radiohead’s Thom Yorke among thousands of artists to issue AI protest

Digital Trends 23 Oct 2024
Makers of the generative-AI tools have claimed that its data collection methods fall under the protection of “fair use” according to copyright law, but an increasing number of artists have ...
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More than 10500 US actors, musicians, authors protest tech’s AI data grab

Independent online (SA) 22 Oct 2024
Tech companies have argued this practice is protected as “fair use” under copyright law, but content owners and publishers have increasingly fought back ... on copyrighted work constituted fair use.
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Thom Yorke and Julianne Moore join thousands of creatives in AI warning

The Observer 22 Oct 2024
... the firm’s belief that taking copyrighted content to train AI models without a licence constitutes “fair use”, a term under US copyright law meaning permission from the copyright owner is not needed.
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Julianne Moore, Thom Yorke and 1000 other artists condemn unlicensed A.I. training in open letter

AV Club 22 Oct 2024
with copyrighted works constitutes as "fair use." He went on to launch Fairly Trained, a non-profit organization that offers "certifications for generative AI companies that get consent for the training data they use.".
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Microsoft boss urges rethink of copyright laws for AI

The Times/The Sunday Times 21 Oct 2024
... material, which allows people in certain situations to use intellectual property without permission ... “What are the bounds for copyright, which obviously have to be protected? What’s fair use?” he said.
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AI is supposed to be Hollywood’s next big thing. What’s taking so long?

The Willoughby News-Herald 21 Oct 2024
OpenAI’s position on copyright disputes has given some in Hollywood pause. The company has expressed an expansive view of “ fair use” doctrine, which allows for limited use of copyrighted material without the owner’s permission.
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LETTER: Sign the copyright bill already!

Business Day 20 Oct 2024
His comments are largely wrong — the basic idea of fair use, for example, comes from American copyright law. The idea of a reversion of copyrights after a few years is a feature of French and German copyright law.
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After years of debate in parliament, Ramaphosa sends copyright bill to concourt

Mail Guardian South Africa 16 Oct 2024
They warned that the exemption introduced by way of the concept of fair use erodes the rights of copyright holders and risks putting South Africa in breach of international treaties ... Fair use as ...
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Ramaphosa sends ‘atrocious’ copyright bill to Constitutional Court

Business Day 15 Oct 2024
What was particularly objectionable was the introduction of the concept of fair use, which undermined the rights of copyright holders. One of the many reasons the Copyright Amendment Bill was ...

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