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● 09/08/2024
“Should we download the whole Netflix too? How could we operationalize this?”
– Nvidia VP of Research Ming-Yu Liu, flagrantly ignoring intellectual property rights in a leaked Slack message. Reportedly scraping videos from YouTube, Discovery, and IMDB as well, Nividia is the latest example of a Big Tech outfit strip mining copyrighted media to create a (monetizable) AI foundation model.
Proof
● 15/07/2024
“Instead of adopting broader protection measures for all, which would mean granting the same rights to Latin Americans as those in the European Union, these platforms discriminate based on location.”
– Policy analyst Agneris Sampieri, on how Big Tech does not extend protections from regulated regions to the Global South. Reporting on how Latin American artists cannot opt out of their artworks posted to Instagram being used to train AI—Europeans can—journalist Lucila Pinto talks to Sampieri and other experts about how Meta exploits a “jurisdictional gap.”
Rest of World
● 01/07/2024
“At the heart of Suno and Udio’s argument is that their technology is sufficently transformative in nature. They argue that this is because their AI synthesizes new, original output, rather than copying and reproducing pre-existing songs.”
– Legal scholar Wellett Potter, on the lawsuit record labels have levied against AI music apps Suno and Udio. Alleging copyright violation, the labels argue music generated by the apps bears “striking resemblances” to songs by ABBA, James Brown, Mariah Carey, and other artists—that their songs were training data.
The Conversation
● 29/12/2023

In anticipation of the Steamboat Willey (1928) version of Mickey Mouse entering the public domain in 2024, Matthew Plummer-Fernández’ hack of the cultural icon, Every Mickey, resurfaces on X. First shown in 2015, at the British-Colombian artist’s solo show “Hard Copy” at NOME, Berlin, the 3D-printed composite of found 3D models “circumvents copyright by being a compilation,” Plummer-Fernández explains on X. Compilations constitute “an exception in copyright law for the creative compiling of other works.”

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