Open Rights Group
@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org  ·  activity timestamp 20 hours 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 3 weeks ago

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  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago
@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 3 weeks ago

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 3 weeks ago

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
M. Grégoire
@mpjgregoire@cosocial.ca  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago
@evan Copyright isn't an a priori concept; it's a human creation, devised to balance a reward for authoring new works with the benefit of disseminating those works. In every jurisdiction the answer to your question depends on what the specific law says.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002c3bm

#BBC#InOurTime#Copyright
The Japan Times
@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

"This ruling does not stand for the proposition that Meta's use of copyrighted materials to train its language models is lawful," a San Francisco District Court judge said after handing the tech giant legal victory. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/06/26/tech/us-judge-meta-ai-training-copyright/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #uk #ai #copyright #meta
IBBoard
@ibboard@hachyderm.io  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

In case people didn't know, Creative Commons has been on the side of "screw your rights and livelihood, it's fair use" regarding GenAI training since at least 2021.

https://creativecommons.org/2021/03/04/should-cc-licensed-content-be-used-to-train-ai-it-depends/

The new "AI" license 'signals' are interesting as a development (assuming anyone honours them when companies mass pirated commercial creative works!) but not a surprise (and apparently don't include a "no" option, because that's elsewhere in a spec and this is for granularity of yes)

#Copyright#CreativeCommons
Aquilegia Nox
@Aquilegia_Nox@toot.portes-imaginaire.org  ·  activity timestamp 7 months ago

Ils sont coincés en haut d'une tour. En bas, une armée de gobelin prêts à en découdre. Les coups du bélier dans la porte font trembler l'édifice.
Leur seul espoir? Lancer des boules de feu. Ils ont même le parchemin du sort. Sauf qu'il en faudrait une myriade et qu'ils n'ont qu'un seul exemplaire.
Et il est protégé contre la copie.

Une petite #histoire sur les conséquences du #copyright en #fantasy. Ah, si ce sort avait été #copyleft ...

https://www.atramenta.net/lire/la-derniere-copie/23453