Mark T. Tomczak
@mark@mastodon.fixermark.com  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

(Personal observation, not a "way things should be" thought):

Surprised to learn of myself that of all the reasons AI crawling of the web should be concerning, "It stops redirecting traffic to the host sites" isn't one of them. To me, anyway.

The "old web" that I hear people sometimes pine for was a place that people were putting stuff online with no expectation of financial remuneration. People put stuff online so it was online. The idea that it could end up re-indexed somewhere else was... Yes please we'd like that info easier to find actually?

There are other issues with AI answers (personally: I want the back-link to the source because I shouldn't trust random ideas spewed at me by an AI agent any more than I trust random ideas from an anonymous Redditor, and pedigree and source citation helps there). To the extent that they divorce site maintainers from their ad revenue... That's not an AI problem, that's a "There are no stable models for capturing revenue off of infinitely-copyable information in capitalism" problem. There's not as much moral daylight between AI scrapers bypassing robots.txt and IP blockers and lying about their user-agent... and Aaron Swartz smuggling a server into a secure network to scrape a paid academic archive... as I think some people want to believe.

#ai #copyright #capitalism
Jan Ainali
@ainali@social.coop  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

For all #WikimediaCommons people, I wrote a high-level overview of the copyright management on Commons. If you would like to take a look and see if I missed something vital, I would greatly appreciate it: https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:CommonsDB_registry/Commons_copyright_managament_summary_for_IVIR
#Wikimedia #copyright

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Open Rights Group
@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Last night, @pluralistic was in conversation with @mariafarrell to mark ORG's 20th birthday.

This wide-ranging conversation covers everything from the 'Internet dimension' of policy-making to copyright in the age of AI and how to fight for digital rights.

Plus much more!

Missed it live? No worries, you can watch it in full on Youtube 📺

youtube.com/live/M9H2An_D6io
Open Rights Group
@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Last night, @pluralistic was in conversation with @mariafarrell to mark ORG's 20th birthday.

This wide-ranging conversation covers everything from the 'Internet dimension' of policy-making to copyright in the age of AI and how to fight for digital rights.

Plus much more!

Missed it live? No worries, you can watch it in full on Youtube 📺

youtube.com/live/M9H2An_D6io
Erik Moeller
@eloquence@social.coop  ·  activity timestamp last month

I understand many critiques of current AI systems and agree with many of them; the one I will never agree with is a desire for strengthening copyright protections that echoes the RIAA's rhetoric against Napster.

Copyright is not, and never will be, a tool for social liberation. It is an instrument of capitalist control. We need an economy that doesn't rely on gridlock control over bits to ensure that people can make a living.
KevinOnEarth
@Quantillion@mstdn.io replied  ·  activity timestamp last month
@eloquence
#Copyright needs to be entirely reinvented for the digital age. As it is, it is a jumble of laws built for the 45RPM analog radio era.
This can be done very easily, where everyone has access to *everything* and creatives still get paid. The only losers would be copyright lawyers & crooked publishers.
Flipboard Tech Desk
@TechDesk@flipboard.social  ·  activity timestamp last month

Denmark's solution to the problem of deepfakes is to let people copyright their own features. While the department of culture still needs to submit a proposal to amend existing copyright law, it has already secured cross-party support. “In the bill we agree and are sending an unequivocal message that everybody has the right to their own body, their own voice and their own facial features, which is apparently not how the current law is protecting people against generative AI,” Jakob Engel-Schmidt, Danish culture minister, told The Guardian. Here's more from @Techcrunch.

https://flip.it/nXfkfE

#AI#ArtificialIntelligence#Deepfakes#Copyright#CopyrightLaw#Tech#Technology
Flipboard Tech Desk
@TechDesk@flipboard.social  ·  activity timestamp last month

Denmark's solution to the problem of deepfakes is to let people copyright their own features. While the department of culture still needs to submit a proposal to amend existing copyright law, it has already secured cross-party support. “In the bill we agree and are sending an unequivocal message that everybody has the right to their own body, their own voice and their own facial features, which is apparently not how the current law is protecting people against generative AI,” Jakob Engel-Schmidt, Danish culture minister, told The Guardian. Here's more from @Techcrunch.

https://flip.it/nXfkfE

#AI#ArtificialIntelligence#Deepfakes#Copyright#CopyrightLaw#Tech#Technology
Aram Sinnreich
@aram@aoir.social  ·  activity timestamp last month

This idea might be very emotionally satisfying (“Yeah! Take control of your own biometric data!”) but please listen to every single #copyright expert on this platform: the consequences of expanding ©️ this way will be devastating and lead to face monopolies.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/27/deepfakes-denmark-copyright-law-artificial-intelligence
Aram Sinnreich
@aram@aoir.social  ·  activity timestamp last month

This idea might be very emotionally satisfying (“Yeah! Take control of your own biometric data!”) but please listen to every single #copyright expert on this platform: the consequences of expanding ©️ this way will be devastating and lead to face monopolies.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/27/deepfakes-denmark-copyright-law-artificial-intelligence