Tootfinder

Filing: Disney and NBCUniversal sue Midjourney in California, accusing it of direct and secondary copyright infringement; they say talks with Midjourney failed (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/11/disney-nbcu-midjourney-copyright
…

Disney, NBCU sue Midjourney over copyright infringement
It's the first legal action from major Hollywood studios against a generative AI company.

Questions But Not Chaos at the USA #Copyright Office https://illusionofmore.com/questions-but-not-chaos-at-the-copyri…

Questions But Not Chaos at the Copyright Office - The Illusion of More
Yes, the details are hard to follow through the fog, but I would not describe the Copyright Office as being in a state of chaos.

Filing: Disney and NBCUniversal sue Midjourney in California, accusing it of direct and secondary copyright infringement; they say talks with Midjourney failed (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/11/disney-nbcu-midjourney-copyright
…

Disney, NBCU sue Midjourney over copyright infringement
It's the first legal action from major Hollywood studios against a generative AI company.

'Unpublished works pose particular problems, especially for archives. A quirk of [UK] copyright law means that many of these works, including some very old documents are in copyright until 2039.' https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/copyright/2014/08/21/unpublished-w…

Two things on this:
1 - To protect people from deepfakes has merit and is very, very needed. Urgently, even.
2 - Every single time people tried to use copyright law to do stuff copyright law is not intended to do, the results were catastrophic. No problems were solved that way, and new problems were created.
Stop it. Just stop.

arxiv_collab: Scientific collaborations in physics (1995-2005)
Collaboration graphs for scientists, extracted from the Los Alamos e-Print arXiv (physics), for 1995-1999 for three categories, and additionally for 1995-2003 and 1995-2005 for one category. For copyright reasons, the MEDLINE (biomedical research) and NCSTRL (computer science) collaboration graphs from this paper are not publicly available.
This network has 16726 nodes and 47594 edges.
Tags: Social, Collaboratio…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.03883 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_…

Protecting Deep Learning Model Copyrights with Adversarial Example-Free Reuse Detection
Model reuse techniques can reduce the resource requirements for training high-performance deep neural networks (DNNs) by leveraging existing models. However, unauthorized reuse and replication of DNNs can lead to copyright infringement and economic loss to the model owner. This underscores the need to analyze the reuse relation between DNNs and develop copyright protection techniques to safeguard intellectual property rights. Existing white-box testing-based approaches cannot address the common…

Hape Kerkeling erhält Münchhausen-Preis der Stadt Bodenwerder
Die Jury: Sein Werk sei eine "Hommage an den Mut zur maßlosen Übertreibung".
https://www.kabarett-news.de/News-vom-11.05.2025-hape-kerkeling.html
Foto Copyright Hape Kerkeling

@…
This cartoon is from Tom Gauld's book: Revenge of the Librarians
copyright 2022
Get ALL his books. Read them. ALL of them are the best one.
#Reading

Getty's copyright lawsuit against Stability AI begins at London's High Court, accusing it of unlawfully scraping millions of images; Stability denies the claims (Sam Tobin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa

Generative AI, Copyright, and Market Harm – Copyhype https://www.copyhype.com/2025/05/generative-ai-copyright-and-market-harm/?utm_source=dlvr.it&ut…

#WritersCoffeeClub 10: What is the line between homage and theft?
Theft is illegal, a copyright violation. You take someone else's words, paragraph by paragraph, and pass it on as your own. Plagiarism, while not strictly illegal, lands here in my opinion. It's artistic theft.
Homage, in my opinion, is writing something in someone else's spirit, honouring the origin…

Anthropic kann Copyright-Klage von Buchautoren teilweise abwehren
Anthropic hat Bücher ohne Genehmigung kopiert und für LLM-Trainings genutzt. Die Zulässigkeit ist abhängig von der Beschaffungsweise, sagt ein US-Gericht.

The chat program is in public domain. This is not the GNU public license.
If it breaks then you get to keep both pieces.
-- Copyright notice for the chat program

Getty's copyright lawsuit against Stability AI begins at London's High Court, accusing it of unlawfully scraping millions of images; Stability denies the claims (Sam Tobin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa

Ach komm, dann auch den kompletten Song. Falls jemand eine Idee für einen Titel hat, haut raus. Copyright hat mein Banane-Fressender Affe. Oder so.
#summer #music #banger

Interesting reporting and analysis by Gordon Hull about recent decisions in the US courts about AI and copyright:
https://www.newappsblog.com/2025/07/ai-and-copyright-training-data-and-transformative-fair-use.html

The Danish government will clamp down on the creation and dissemination of AI-generated deepfakes by changing copyright law to ensure that everybody has the right to their own body, facial features and voice.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

https://petapixel.com/2025/06/27/denmark-gives-people-copyright-over-their-own-faces-to-fight-deepfakes/

Denmark Gives People Copyright Over Their Own Faces to Fight Deepfakes
Everybody has the right to their own body.

Earlier this month, the Copyright Office issued the third part of its report on on AI: this one covering how generative AI may infringe on copyright and whether that's fair use (short answer: maybe, maybe not). I have a new article up summarizing the report.
https://www.…

Copyright Office's report discusses whether generative AI use is fair use
Earlier this month, the Copyright Office issued the third part of its report on AI. As with the first two parts, the Copyright Office discusses arguments from people who responded to its call for comments and then provides its analysis. The three main sections in this part focus on infringement, fair use, and licensing regimes. Here, I’m going to cover what the report says about the first two items: whether using copyrighted material in generative AI infringes on owners’ rights and whether…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.20771 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_…

Towards Black-Box Membership Inference Attack for Diffusion Models
Given the rising popularity of AI-generated art and the associated copyright concerns, identifying whether an artwork was used to train a diffusion model is an important research topic. The work approaches this problem from the membership inference attack (MIA) perspective. We first identify the limitation of applying existing MIA methods for proprietary diffusion models: the required access of internal U-nets. To address the above problem, we introduce a novel membership inference attack metho…

"Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features"
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/27/deepfakes-denmark-copyright-law-artificial-intelligence

An interview with Runway CEO Cris Valenzuela on expediting the movie-making process, copyright cases, why using Runway is like using a camera, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-w

Runway CEO Cris Valenzuela wants Hollywood to embrace AI video
The head of the AI video generation platform on copyright and the future of filmmaking.

But can we use any of it without a bot automatically flagging it for a copyright violation?
https://boingboing.net/2025/05/08/moby-relaunches-free-music-library-for-creatives-with-500-new-tracks.html

An interview with Runway CEO Cris Valenzuela on expediting the movie-making process, copyright cases, why using Runway is like using a camera, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-w

Runway CEO Cris Valenzuela wants Hollywood to embrace AI video
The head of the AI video generation platform on copyright and the future of filmmaking.

ICAS: Detecting Training Data from Autoregressive Image Generative Models
Hongyao Yu, Yixiang Qiu, Yiheng Yang, Hao Fang, Tianqu Zhuang, Jiaxin Hong, Bin Chen, Hao Wu, Shu-Tao Xia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05068

ICAS: Detecting Training Data from Autoregressive Image Generative Models
Autoregressive image generation has witnessed rapid advancements, with prominent models such as scale-wise visual auto-regression pushing the boundaries of visual synthesis. However, these developments also raise significant concerns regarding data privacy and copyright. In response, training data detection has emerged as a critical task for identifying unauthorized data usage in model training. To better understand the vulnerability of autoregressive image generative models to such detection, …

Major Film Studios File Copyright Suit Against Midjourney - The Illusion of More https://illusionofmore.com/major-film-studios-file-copyrigh…

Major Film Studios File Copyright Suit Against Midjourney - The Illusion of More
Disney and Universal file the first copyright infringement suit by major studios against an AI developer in Disney et. al v. Midjourney.

Mittwoch: Anthropic mit Copyright-Teilerfolg, Google Earth bietet Rückblicke
Gericht zu KI-Training mit Büchern Google Earth mit alten Bildern Entlassungen bei Microsoft Bill Gates gegen Gesundheitskrise Transparenz bei Glasfaser

Denmark To Tackle Deepfakes By Giving People Copyright To Their Own Features - Slashdot
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/06/27/2050240/denmark-to-tackle-deepfakes-by-giving-people-copyright-to-their-own-features

Adalytics finds 9,000 pirated movies, including summer blockbusters, TV shows, and live sports on YouTube, amassing a collective 250M views from July to May (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/t…

YouTube Pirates Are Cashing In on Hollywood’s Summer Blockbusters
More than a decade after the platform cracked down on copyright infringement, thousands of unlicensed movies, TV shows and live sports are available.

Are NFTs Ready to Keep Australian Artists Engaged?
Ruiqiang Li, Brian Yecies, Qin Wang, Shiping Chen, Jun Shen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06926 https://

Are NFTs Ready to Keep Australian Artists Engaged?
Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) offer a promising mechanism to protect Australian and Indigenous artists' copyright. They represent and transfer the value of artwork in digital form. Before adopting NFTs to protect Australian artwork, we in this paper investigate them empericially. We focus on examining the details of NFT structure. We start from the underlying structure of NFTs to show how they represent copyright for both artists and production owners, as well as how they aim to safeguard or secur…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.10877 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSE_…

Developer Perspectives on Licensing and Copyright Issues Arising from Generative AI for Software Development
Despite the utility that Generative AI (GenAI) tools provide for tasks such as writing code, the use of these tools raises important legal questions and potential risks, particularly those associated with copyright law. As lawmakers and regulators engage with those questions, the views of users can provide relevant perspectives. In this paper, we provide: (1) a survey of 574 developers on the licensing and copyright aspects of GenAI for coding, as well as follow-up interviews; (2) a snapshot of…

An 8TB corpus of copyright-free text for training AI models. Comes with two 7B models trained as proof-of-concept.
https://github.com/r-three/common-pile/blob/main/paper.pdf
I'm glad somebody has finally done this. The "we need to break copyrig…

The behind the scenes copyright work youtubers have to do is crazy. The ASMR scene for scene recreation of shrek has been a fight to keep up.
#youtube

WAKE: Watermarking Audio with Key Enrichment
Yaoxun Xu, Jianwei Yu, Hangting Chen, Zhiyong Wu, Xixin Wu, Dong Yu, Rongzhi Gu, Yi Luo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05891

WAKE: Watermarking Audio with Key Enrichment
As deep learning advances in audio generation, challenges in audio security and copyright protection highlight the need for robust audio watermarking. Recent neural network-based methods have made progress but still face three main issues: preventing unauthorized access, decoding initial watermarks after multiple embeddings, and embedding varying lengths of watermarks. To address these issues, we propose WAKE, the first key-controllable audio watermark framework. WAKE embeds watermarks using sp…

Adalytics finds 9,000 pirated movies, including summer blockbusters, TV shows, and live sports on YouTube, amassing a collective 250M views from July to May (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/t…

YouTube Pirates Are Cashing In on Hollywood’s Summer Blockbusters
More than a decade after the platform cracked down on copyright infringement, thousands of unlicensed movies, TV shows and live sports are available.

Sources: the UK has delayed proposals to regulate AI, with plans to introduce an AI bill in 2026 to address concerns about issues like safety and copyright (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

Extraordinarily Expensive Costs Force Getty to Pick Its AI Legal Battles (Ars Technica, 28 May 2025)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/05/extraordinarily-expensive-costs-force-getty-to-pick-its-ai-legal-battles/…

It’s too expensive to fight every AI copyright battle, Getty CEO says
Getty dumped “millions and millions” into just one AI copyright fight, CEO says.

arxiv_collab: Scientific collaborations in physics (1995-2005)
Collaboration graphs for scientists, extracted from the Los Alamos e-Print arXiv (physics), for 1995-1999 for three categories, and additionally for 1995-2003 and 1995-2005 for one category. For copyright reasons, the MEDLINE (biomedical research) and NCSTRL (computer science) collaboration graphs from this paper are not publicly available.
This network has 40421 nodes and 175692 edges.
Tags: Social, Collaborati…

Red Teaming for Generative AI, Report on a Copyright-Focused Exercise Completed in an Academic Medical Center
James Wen, Sahil Nalawade, Zhiwei Liang, Catherine Bielick, Marisa Ferrara Boston, Alexander Chowdhury, Adele Collin, Luigi De Angelis, Jacob Ellen, Heather Frase, Rodrigo R. Gameiro, Juan Manuel Gutierrez, Pooja Kadam, Murat Keceli, Srikanth Krishnamurthy, Anne Kwok, Yanan Lance Lu, Heather Mattie, Liam G. McCoy, Katherine Miller, Allison C. Morgan, Marlene Louisa Moerig, Tran…

Red Teaming for Generative AI, Report on a Copyright-Focused Exercise Completed in an Academic Medical Center
Generative AI is present in multiple industries. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, in partnership with Microsoft, has created an internal AI tool, GPT4DFCI. Together we hosted a red teaming event to assess whether the underlying GPT models that support the tool would output copyrighted data. Our teams focused on reproducing content from books, news articles, scientific articles, and electronic health records. We found isolated instances where GPT4DFCI was able to identify copyrighted material and r…

Welp, looks like I'll need to file a bill to require that if the state is going to assert copyright over its historical markers, it's gotta be under a copyleft license: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Files_in_Category:Historical_markers_in_New_Hampshire
(that is, assuming something can't be worked out independently without one...)

The EU publishes a voluntary code of practice to help companies follow its AI Act, including requiring developers to provide up-to-date AI feature documentation (Gian Volpicelli/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.09117 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_…

GRU: Mitigating the Trade-off between Unlearning and Retention for Large Language Models
Large language model (LLM) unlearning has demonstrated its essential role in removing privacy and copyright-related responses, crucial for their legal and safe applications. However, the pursuit of complete unlearning often comes with substantial costs due to its compromises in their general functionality, leading to a notorious trade-off between unlearning and retention. In examining the update process for unlearning dynamically, we find gradients hold essential information for revealing this …

Salzburger Stier 2025 in Gütersloh
Der Radio-Kabarettpreis wird am 10.5. verliehen an Lisa Christ (CH), Till Reiners (D) und Alex Kristan (Ö).
https://www.kabarett-news.de/News-vom-07.05.2025...
Logo Copyright AG für Unterhaltung deutschsprachiger Sender

„a whim overtook me“ is gonna be the title of my autobiography https://social.neonpaws.digital/@FoxesInLove/114772437021175491

Foxes in Love (@FoxesInLove@social.neonpaws.digital)
Attached: 1 image #foxesInLove #comic Source: https://foxes-in-love.tumblr.com/post/787779916103024640 Copyright: https://foxesinlove.net

Meta and Anthropic prevailed in copyright suits against them, but the rulings have major caveats and don't address when AI output might infringe copyright (Adi Robertson/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/analysis/694657/ai-copyright-rulings-anthr…

Did AI companies win a fight with authors? Technically
Meta and Anthropic both triumphed in a pair of copyright cases, but with major caveats.

“Midjourney is the quintessential copyright free-rider and a bottomless pit of plagiarism. Piracy is piracy, and whether an infringing image or video is made with AI or another technology does not make it any less infringing” — Disney and Universal
https://

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.03824 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_…

Towards Data Governance of Frontier AI Models
Data is essential to train and fine-tune today's frontier artificial intelligence (AI) models and to develop future ones. To date, academic, legal, and regulatory work has primarily addressed how data can directly harm consumers and creators, such as through privacy breaches, copyright infringements, and bias and discrimination. Our work, instead, focuses on the comparatively neglected question of how data can enable new governance capacities for frontier AI models. This approach for "frontier …

Alas I've just ordered a WIFI enabled, AI washing machine; and the copyright doesn't even include CURL; I thought the 5 year warranty would enable be to ask @… for advice on getting my clothes cleaner.
Still, it seems to have everything else, NuttX and contiki low power OSs (neither of which I've come across), Uboot, wpa_supplicant, cJSON, FatFS

Setting aside copyright/commercial/other aspects, a thought about writing blog posts that LLMs train on. When people write posts, they (a) feel good about helping others, and (b) hope to get some credit and visibility for doing so.
When mediated through LLMs, no longer the satisfaction that your consumer is a human (who might comment, thank, share, etc.); nor the cred that comes from people remembering the author, posting on HN, etc.
That is, it totally destroys the incentive str…

Dänemark will Persönlichkeitsrechte gegen Deepfakes stärken
Aussehen, Stimme, generelle Erscheinung – darauf sollen Dänen künftig eine Art einklagbares Copyright bekommen. Das könnte in der EU Schule machen.

Is anyone aware of case law / settlements (in the USA or elsewhere, just curious) about copyright/trademark infringing tattoos?
People get fan-art tattoos all the time and most of the time the rights owner doesn't care... but under some circumstances, they might.
Obviously they could try to go after the artist, that's a "standard" copyright/trademark infringement case.
But what about the infringing work that is now part of your body?
The three plausi…

It’s better to have Matthew Prince on the side of good than to have him in opposition. https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/114764009764346430

Niemand sollte die @… Senior*innen unterschätzen. Zum Abschied gestern nach einer ziemlich breit gefächerten Diskussion über Verwaltungsdigitalisierung, Überwachung, IT-Sicherheit, Gesundheitsdigitalisierung und und und gab's nicht die üblichen Pralinen, sondern die Erstauflage des "Chaos Computer Buchs" von 1988. <3
Die Leute h…

Intrinsic Fingerprint of LLMs: Continue Training is NOT All You Need to Steal A Model!
Do-hyeon Yoon, Minsoo Chun, Thomas Allen, Hans M\"uller, Min Wang, Rajesh Sharma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03014

Intrinsic Fingerprint of LLMs: Continue Training is NOT All You Need to Steal A Model!
Large language models (LLMs) face significant copyright and intellectual property challenges as the cost of training increases and model reuse becomes prevalent. While watermarking techniques have been proposed to protect model ownership, they may not be robust to continue training and development, posing serious threats to model attribution and copyright protection. This work introduces a simple yet effective approach for robust LLM fingerprinting based on intrinsic model characteristics. We d…

Major Film Studios File Copyright Suit Against Midjourney - The Illusion of More https://illusionofmore.com/major-film-studios-file-copyright-suit-against-midjourney/

Major Film Studios File Copyright Suit Against Midjourney - The Illusion of More
Disney and Universal file the first copyright infringement suit by major studios against an AI developer in Disney et. al v. Midjourney.

I have always been a copyright sceptic but I wouldn't have wished AI to be the force to crash it. Time to think for new models of how to keep writing and music alive. Maybe a society deciding to prioritize guaranteeing giving everyone the possibility of a safe basic income, food, housing and health care instead of forcing them into competition hell could help? Maybe?

A US judge has said that Meta’s use of copyrighted books to train its AI models constitutes "fair use" under US copyright law. It follows a similar judgement about Anthropic earlier this week, and will come as disappointment to authors and other creators looking for compensation in what they see as use of their work without permission.

Meta’s AI training on copyrighted content is ‘fair use’, US judge says
But creators could have grounds for complaint in future cases they can prove market dilution and unfair competition, judge adds.

Two rival Amazon influencers seek to dismiss their 2024 copyright case, where one accused the other of posting similar promotional content for the same products (Mia Sato/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/676357/amazon-inf…

The ‘beige Amazon influencer’ lawsuit is headed for dismissal
A lawsuit between two Amazon influencers raised questions about copyright, identity, and ownership of online content and vibes. Now the case is coming to a close.

Let‘s train an #AI which will output copyrighted work if asked to.
Judge Alsup: Training AI On Copyrighted Works? Fair Use. Building Pirate Libraries? Not So Much https://www.…

Defiant peers have delivered an ultimatum to the government – calling on it to offer artists copyright protection against artificial intelligence companies or risk losing a key piece of legislation.
The government suffered a fifth defeat in the House of Lords over controversial plans to allow the AI companies to train their models using copyrighted material
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/04/ministers-offer-concessions-ai-copyright-avoid-fifth-lords-defeat?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Denmark plans to clamp down on AI-generated deepfakes by changing copyright law to give its citizens rights to their own body, facial features, and voice (Miranda Bryant/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

Getty Images drops its primary claims of copyright infringement against Stability AI in UK court but continues to pursue other claims and a separate US lawsuit (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/25/gett

Getty drops key copyright claims against Stability AI, but UK lawsuit continues | TechCrunch
Getty Images dropped its primary claims of copyright infringement against Stability AI on Wednesday at London’s High Court, narrowing one of the most closely watched legal fights over how AI companies use copyrighted content to train their models. 

In its December 2023 lawsuit against OpenAI, The New York Times produced dozens of examples where GPT-4 exactly reproduced significant passages from Times stories.
In its response, OpenAI described this as a “fringe behavior” and a “problem that researchers at OpenAI and elsewhere work hard to address.”
But is it actually a fringe behavior?
And have leading AI companies addressed it? 
New research—focusing on books rather than newspaper articles and on different compa…

Study: Meta AI model can reproduce almost half of Harry Potter book
The research could have big implications for generative AI copyright lawsuits.

(Without the preachy tone) Information, knowledge, is not copyright, the form it's in may be and ideas are not IP but expressed methods of using them are.
🧵

Intellectual Property Rights and Entrepreneurship in the NFT Ecosystem: Legal Frameworks, Business Models, and Innovation Opportunities
Pranav Darshan, Rohan J S, Raghuveer Rajesh, Ruchitha M, Sanika Kamath, Manas M N
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00172

Intellectual Property Rights and Entrepreneurship in the NFT Ecosystem: Legal Frameworks, Business Models, and Innovation Opportunities
Non Fungible Tokens have changed digital ownership and how creators earn money. Between 2021 and 2024, the market value exceeded 40 billion. However, the fast growth of the NFT ecosystem has revealed serious issues in managing intellectual property rights. There is a lot of confusion about the difference between owning an NFT and owning the copyright for the underlying content. This research looks at the gap between traditional copyright laws and blockchain-based transactions. We use a mixed me…

Leider werden viele Leute keinen Widerspruch bei Meta eingelegt haben gegen die KI-Verwendung ihrer Facebook/Instagram-Daten, weil sie dachten "Boah, schon wieder so ein nutzloser Ich-widerspreche Post der nicht funktioniert."
Bin da wohl nicht ganz unschuldig dran, hab vor 11 Jahren einen Scherz gepostet, den viele nicht erkannten (siehe ab Zeile 10)
#Meta

Denmark plans to clamp down on AI-generated deepfakes by changing copyright law to give its citizens rights to their own body, facial features, and voice (Miranda Bryant/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

arxiv_collab: Scientific collaborations in physics (1995-2005)
Collaboration graphs for scientists, extracted from the Los Alamos e-Print arXiv (physics), for 1995-1999 for three categories, and additionally for 1995-2003 and 1995-2005 for one category. For copyright reasons, the MEDLINE (biomedical research) and NCSTRL (computer science) collaboration graphs from this paper are not publicly available.
This network has 31163 nodes and 120029 edges.
Tags: Social, Collaborati…

In einem eventuellen Streit zwischen Meta und J. K. Rowling kann sich keine Seite auf mich verlassen. (Und sie brauchen mich ja auch gar nicht.)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/study-metas-llama-3-1-can-recall-42-percent-of-the…

Study: Meta AI model can reproduce almost half of Harry Potter book
The research could have big implications for generative AI copyright lawsuits.

Beyond Code: #APIs as the Next #OSS Battleground
https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2025/06/09/o…

DATABench: Evaluating Dataset Auditing in Deep Learning from an Adversarial Perspective
Shuo Shao, Yiming Li, Mengren Zheng, Zhiyang Hu, Yukun Chen, Boheng Li, Yu He, Junfeng Guo, Tianwei Zhang, Dacheng Tao, Zhan Qin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05622

DATABench: Evaluating Dataset Auditing in Deep Learning from an Adversarial Perspective
The widespread application of Deep Learning across diverse domains hinges critically on the quality and composition of training datasets. However, the common lack of disclosure regarding their usage raises significant privacy and copyright concerns. Dataset auditing techniques, which aim to determine if a specific dataset was used to train a given suspicious model, provide promising solutions to addressing these transparency gaps. While prior work has developed various auditing methods, their r…

A US judge rules that Meta's use of books to train AI is protected by fair use but says his opinion is more a reflection of the plaintiffs' poor arguments (Isaiah Poritz/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/legal-op

Meta Beats Authors’ Copyright Suit Over AI Training on Books (2)
Meta Platforms Inc. escaped a first-of-its-kind copyright lawsuit from a group of authors who alleged the tech giant hoovered up millions of copyrighted books without permission to train its generative AI model called Llama.

A US judge rules that Meta's use of books to train AI is protected by fair use but says his opinion is more a reflection of the plaintiffs' poor arguments (Isaiah Poritz/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/legal-op

Meta Beats Copyright Suit From Authors Over AI Training on Books
Meta Platforms Inc. escaped a first-of-its-kind copyright lawsuit from a group of authors who alleged the tech giant hoovered up millions of copyrighted books without permission to train its generative AI model called Llama.

Comeback der "Sketch History"
Nach sechs Jahren Pause: "Sketch History" kehrt ins ZDF zurück - Drehstart für zehn neue Folgen der preisgekrönten Comedyreihe - Ensemble erweitert.
http://www.kabarett-news.de/News-vom-05.07.2025-sketch-history.html…

The AI Safe Harbor Moratorium Undermines Mrs. Palsgraf’s Remedy
https://musictechpolicy.com/2025/05/28/the-ai-safe-harbor-moratorium-undermines-mr…

The AI Safe Harbor Moratorium Undermines Mrs. Palsgraf’s Remedy
The AI Moratorium is a rent seeker on a free ride.

Blameless Users in a Clean Room: Defining Copyright Protection for Generative Models
Aloni Cohen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19881 https://

Blameless Users in a Clean Room: Defining Copyright Protection for Generative Models
Are there any conditions under which a generative model's outputs are guaranteed not to infringe the copyrights of its training data? This is the question of "provable copyright protection" first posed by Vyas, Kakade, and Barak (ICML 2023). They define near access-freeness (NAF) and propose it as sufficient for protection. This paper revisits the question and establishes new foundations for provable copyright protection -- foundations that are firmer both technically and legally. First, we sho…

SecureT2I: No More Unauthorized Manipulation on AI Generated Images from Prompts
Xiaodong Wu, Xiangman Li, Qi Li, Jianbing Ni, Rongxing Lu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03636

SecureT2I: No More Unauthorized Manipulation on AI Generated Images from Prompts
Text-guided image manipulation with diffusion models enables flexible and precise editing based on prompts, but raises ethical and copyright concerns due to potential unauthorized modifications. To address this, we propose SecureT2I, a secure framework designed to prevent unauthorized editing in diffusion-based generative models. SecureT2I is compatible with both general-purpose and domain-specific models and can be integrated via lightweight fine-tuning without architectural changes. We catego…

bag_of_words: Bag of words (2008)
Five text collections in the form of bags-of-words, i.e. a bipartite document–word network. Left nodes are documents and right nodes are words. Edge weights are multiplicities. .
This network has 10336 nodes and 353160 edges.
Tags: Informational, Text, Bipartite, Weighted, Metadata
https://

SCOTUS declines to hear a copyright suit accusing Ed Sheeran of copying the sheet music for his song Thinking Out Loud from Marvin Gaye's Let's Get It On (John Fritze/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/06/16/politics/ed-sheeran-marvin-gaye-supreme-court

Supreme Court declines to hear copyright appeal that alleged Ed Sheeran copied Marvin Gaye song
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a copyright suit against pop star Ed Sheeran filed by a company that alleged his smash single “Thinking Out Loud” copied the classic Marvin Gaye song “Let’s Get It On.”

Not That Kind of Transformation: AI, Fair Use, and Relating Back – Copyhype https://www.copyhype.com/2025/06/not-that-kind-of-tran…

arxiv_collab: Scientific collaborations in physics (1995-2005)
Collaboration graphs for scientists, extracted from the Los Alamos e-Print arXiv (physics), for 1995-1999 for three categories, and additionally for 1995-2003 and 1995-2005 for one category. For copyright reasons, the MEDLINE (biomedical research) and NCSTRL (computer science) collaboration graphs from this paper are not publicly available.
This network has 8361 nodes and 15751 edges.
Tags: Social, Collaboration…

Prix Walo für Gardi Hutter und Emil
Gardi Hutter gewann in der Sparte Kabarett/Comedy, Emil Steinberger bekam den Preis für die beste Film-Produktion sowie den Ehrenpreis.
https://www.kabarett-news.de/News-vom-28.05.2025-prix-walo.html
Logo Copyright Show …

Sources: UMG, Warner Music, and Sony Music are in talks to license their work to AI music services Udio and Suno and settle copyright infringement lawsuits (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Sources: UMG, Warner Music, and Sony Music are in talks to license their work to AI music services Udio and Suno and settle copyright infringement lawsuits (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Mirlo offers another perspective on Bandcamp playlists #Copyright

Mirlo
Buy and sell music directly from musicians.

Schleich wird Pate von Strauß
Helmut Schleich bekam die Ehrenpatenschaft für die Franz-Josef Strauß-Marionette aus dem Kabarett der Augsburger Puppenkiste.
http://www.kabarett-news.de/News-vom-02.07.2025-schleich-pate-strauss.html
Foto Copyright…

CodeGuard: A Generalized and Stealthy Backdoor Watermarking for Generative Code Models
Haoxuan Li, Jiale Zhang, Xiaobing Sun, Xiapu Luo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20926

CodeGuard: A Generalized and Stealthy Backdoor Watermarking for Generative Code Models
Generative code models (GCMs) significantly enhance development efficiency through automated code generation and code summarization. However, building and training these models require computational resources and time, necessitating effective digital copyright protection to prevent unauthorized leaks and misuse. Backdoor watermarking, by embedding hidden identifiers, simplifies copyright verification by breaking the model's black-box nature. Current backdoor watermarking techniques face two mai…

SCOTUS will review a dispute between Cox and major music labels after an appeals court threw out a $1B jury verdict against Cox over alleged piracy by customers (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/s…

arxiv_collab: Scientific collaborations in physics (1995-2005)
Collaboration graphs for scientists, extracted from the Los Alamos e-Print arXiv (physics), for 1995-1999 for three categories, and additionally for 1995-2003 and 1995-2005 for one category. For copyright reasons, the MEDLINE (biomedical research) and NCSTRL (computer science) collaboration graphs from this paper are not publicly available.
This network has 8361 nodes and 15751 edges.
Tags: Social, Collaboration…

Safeguarding Multimodal Knowledge Copyright in the RAG-as-a-Service Environment
Tianyu Chen, Jian Lou, Wenjie Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10030 https:/…

Safeguarding Multimodal Knowledge Copyright in the RAG-as-a-Service Environment
As Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) evolves into service-oriented platforms (Rag-as-a-Service) with shared knowledge bases, protecting the copyright of contributed data becomes essential. Existing watermarking methods in RAG focus solely on textual knowledge, leaving image knowledge unprotected. In this work, we propose AQUA, the first watermark framework for image knowledge protection in Multimodal RAG systems. AQUA embeds semantic signals into synthetic images using two complementary meth…

St. Prosper Kabarettpreis 2025
Die Gewinner: Markus Kapp, Der Wolpert & Joe Heinrich, Michael Eberle.
https://www.kabarett-news.de/News-vom-21.04.2025-st-prosper-kabarettpreis.html
Foto Copyright Markus Kapp

arxiv_collab: Scientific collaborations in physics (1995-2005)
Collaboration graphs for scientists, extracted from the Los Alamos e-Print arXiv (physics), for 1995-1999 for three categories, and additionally for 1995-2003 and 1995-2005 for one category. For copyright reasons, the MEDLINE (biomedical research) and NCSTRL (computer science) collaboration graphs from this paper are not publicly available.
This network has 16706 nodes and 121251 edges.
Tags: Social, Collaborati…

NYT and Amazon agree to a content licensing deal for use in Amazon's AI platforms and to bring the NYT's "content to a variety of Amazon customer experiences" (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/business/m…

The Times and Amazon Announce an A.I. Licensing Deal
In 2023, The Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. Now its editorial content will appear across Amazon platforms.

ME: Trigger Element Combination Backdoor Attack on Copyright Infringement
Feiyu Yang, Siyuan Liang, Aishan Liu, Dacheng Tao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10776

ME: Trigger Element Combination Backdoor Attack on Copyright Infringement
The capability of generative diffusion models (DMs) like Stable Diffusion (SD) in replicating training data could be taken advantage of by attackers to launch the Copyright Infringement Attack, with duplicated poisoned image-text pairs. SilentBadDiffusion (SBD) is a method proposed recently, which shew outstanding performance in attacking SD in text-to-image tasks. However, the feasible data resources in this area are still limited, some of them are even constrained or prohibited due to the iss…

arxiv_collab: Scientific collaborations in physics (1995-2005)
Collaboration graphs for scientists, extracted from the Los Alamos e-Print arXiv (physics), for 1995-1999 for three categories, and additionally for 1995-2003 and 1995-2005 for one category. For copyright reasons, the MEDLINE (biomedical research) and NCSTRL (computer science) collaboration graphs from this paper are not publicly available.
This network has 31163 nodes and 120029 edges.
Tags: Social, Collaborati…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02696 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_…

DiffuseTrace: A Transparent and Flexible Watermarking Scheme for Latent Diffusion Model
Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) enable a wide range of applications but raise ethical concerns regarding illegal utilization. Adding watermarks to generative model outputs is a vital technique employed for copyright tracking and mitigating potential risks associated with Artificial Intelligence (AI)-generated contents. However, post-processed watermarking methods are unable to withstand generative watermark attacks and there exists a trade-off between image fidelity and watermark strength. There…

In a letter to CEO Aravind Srinivas, the BBC says it has evidence Perplexity's default model used its content and seeks "a proposal for financial compensation" (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/b743d401-dc5d-44b8-9987-825a4ffcf4ca

BBC threatens legal action against AI start-up Perplexity over content scraping
British broadcaster makes first move to clamp down on alleged infringement of copyright by tech groups

Researchers find Llama 3.1 recalls large parts of popular copyrighted books, possibly weakening AI industry claims that such memorization is fringe behavior (Timothy B. Lee/Understanding AI)
https://www.understandingai.org/p/metas-llama-31-can-recall-42-perc…

Meta's Llama 3.1 can recall 42 percent of the first Harry Potter book
New research could have big implications for copyright lawsuits against generative AI.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.00035 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_…

MiZero: The Shadowy Defender Against Text Style Infringements
In-Context Learning (ICL) and efficient fine-tuning methods significantly enhanced the efficiency of applying Large Language Models (LLMs) to downstream tasks. However, they also raise concerns about the imitation and infringement of personal creative data. Current methods for data copyright protection primarily focuses on content security but lacks effectiveness in protecting the copyrights of text styles. In this paper, we introduce a novel implicit zero-watermarking scheme, namely MiZero. Th…