"#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

You don’t have to love AI to love #FairUse. It’s not a loophole in the law that wrongdoers “hide behind,” it’s a fundamental free speech right that keeps the censorious powers of copyright in check for the public interest.

https://recreatecoalition.org/a-note-from-recreate-google-books-shows-that-memorization-and-outputting-training-data-are-not-fatal-to-fair-use/

You don’t have to love AI to love #FairUse. It’s not a loophole in the law that wrongdoers “hide behind,” it’s a fundamental free speech right that keeps the censorious powers of copyright in check for the public interest.

https://recreatecoalition.org/a-note-from-recreate-google-books-shows-that-memorization-and-outputting-training-data-are-not-fatal-to-fair-use/

"#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

(FNF Vs. Dave and Bambi) MoldyGH - Furiosity (Dave) but the instrumental is Blocked V2.5 (inst. + voc. mashup)

https://makertube.net/w/4vs6CUBjDBUiugqgm1yfiS

Due to issues with MakerTube I'm now uploading videos to my Mastodon posts as kind of a backup thing (i know, not really permanent). Will try to reduce video file sizes as much as possible. May upload to Internet Archive soon as part of a collection of videos I've done so far (had to delete all items due to not being able to correct outdated info)

As usual like and subscribe to @tkb0iz@makertube.net !

@music @electronicmusic

#TKb0iZMusic #Music #PeerTube #MakerTube #Video #Audio #FNF #FridayNightFunkin #VsDaveAndBambi #Dave #VGM #VideoGameMusic #Mashup #CCBYSA #FairUse

i cannot stress enough how beyond foolish is this whole quoted toot debate. it’s literally political.

YOU DO NOT NEED CONSENT TO QUOTE ANYBODY

there is a reason #fairUse is a standard of free speech in so-called democracies. only authoritarian systems demand to inspect and approve what you will write beforehand.

this is LITERALLY what’s happening with people quoting Charlie Kirk. the MAGA fascistocracy decided they DON’T CONSENT to others quoting Kirk to show who he was… 🧵

I trust #InternetArchive with government documents more than I do the government! (Or #AI for that matter...)

Internet Archive is now an official #USGovernment document #library

by Steve Dent
Fri, July 25, 2025

"The US Senate has granted the Internet Archive federal depository status, making it officially part of an 1,100-library network that gives the public access to government documents, #KQED reported. The designation was made official in a letter from California Senator Alex Padilla to the Government Publishing Office that oversees the network. 'The Archive's digital-first approach makes it the perfect fit for a modern #FederalDepositoryLibrary, expanding access to federal government publications amid an increasingly digital landscape,' he wrote.

"Established by Congress in 1813, the Federal Depository Library Program is designed to help the public access government records. Each congressional member can designate up to two libraries, which include government information like budgets, a code of federal regulations, presidential documents, economic reports and census data.

"With its new status, the Internet Archive will be gain improved access to government materials, founder Brewster Kahle said in a statement. 'By being part of the program itself, it just gets us closer to the source of where the materials are coming from, so that it’s more reliably delivered to the Internet Archive, to then be made available to the patrons of the Internet Archive or partner libraries.' The Archive could also help other #libraries move toward #DigitalPreservation, given its experience in that area.

"It's some good news for the site which has faced legal battles of late. It was sued by major #publishers over loans of #DigitalBooks during the #Coronavirus epidemic and was forced by a federal court in 2023 to remove more than half a million titles. And more recently, major music labels filed lawsuits over its #Great78Project that strove to preserve #78RPM records. If it loses that case it could owe more than $700 million damages and possibly be forced to shut down.

"The new designation likely won't aid its legal problems, but it does affirm the site's importance to the public. 'In October, the Internet Archive will hit a milestone of 1 trillion pages,' Kahle wrote. 'And that 1 trillion is not just a testament to what libraries are able to do, but actually the sharing that people and governments have to try and create an #EducatedPopulace.' "

https://tech.yahoo.com/general/articles/internet-archive-now-official-us-123036550.html

#BigPublishing#Archives#BigMusic#CulturalPreservation#DigitalPreservation#WaybackMachine #Archiving#FairUse#Archives#Capitalism#Corporatism#FightForTheFuture #EmpoweringLibraries

Like the Right to Repair, we have a Right to Archive. Copyright laws around the world must change, to make it clear that noncommercial archiving of born-digital, published artifacts is Fair Use/ Dealing, and exempt from all copyright claims.

The alternative is to let the powerful run their own versions of the Ministry of Truth, and stuff any digital artifact that's inconvenient to them down the memory hole.

https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/114992084802325912

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#copyright #CopyrightReform #FairUse #RightToArchive

Youtube still helps copyright abusers massively.

No, not the ones who upload like 5s song fragments or even NO SONG AT ALL, but those who claim "DMCA TAKEDOWN!" for certain songs even if there is no music AT ALL in that video.
Yes, no music at all. Let that sink in.

As a video uploader you have no chance to counter the claim but as claiming party, you do not have to prove anything! Just say "copyright infringement" and boom - all the money that was made with that poor uploader's video goes to you instead.

It is a scandal, seriously. And this bXllshXt is known for AGES. And no one cares. One more reason to go away from YT - but easier said then done, if you wanna make a living from your videos. Like Music Mongoose, an ex BBC music journalist, an excellent one btw.

He explains it in detail:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFq-e3_llWA
* Invideous Code: TFq-e3_llWA

#google#copyrightAbuse #dcma #fairuse #youtube

Youtube still helps copyright abusers massively.

No, not the ones who upload like 5s song fragments or even NO SONG AT ALL, but those who claim "DMCA TAKEDOWN!" for certain songs even if there is no music AT ALL in that video.
Yes, no music at all. Let that sink in.

As a video uploader you have no chance to counter the claim but as claiming party, you do not have to prove anything! Just say "copyright infringement" and boom - all the money that was made with that poor uploader's video goes to you instead.

It is a scandal, seriously. And this bXllshXt is known for AGES. And no one cares. One more reason to go away from YT - but easier said then done, if you wanna make a living from your videos. Like Music Mongoose, an ex BBC music journalist, an excellent one btw.

He explains it in detail:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFq-e3_llWA
* Invideous Code: TFq-e3_llWA

#google#copyrightAbuse #dcma #fairuse #youtube

@eloquence Thank you for that link. The Google Circuit affirmed #FairUse overall, but never said that the third factor *favors* that finding. The Circuit also speaks of "the reasonable implication of Factor Three that fair use is more likely to be favored by the copying of smaller, rather than larger, portions of the original", but that copying everything does not necessarily exclude a finding of Fair Use.

Well, of course, there are 4 factors for a reason.