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@StopKillingGames petitions the #EU to forbid #commercial game publishers to disable (or "killl") the video #games (that people BOUGHT) remotely.

Their demand is surprisingly soft. It only heals a single symptom, but not the underlying problems. It's still better than nothing, and can get the ball rolling.

We need to see the bigger pictre: #Copyright ideology enables the destruction of #culture in the first place. #Proprietary software and #SaaS just suck in general.

An independent country music artist sued AI companies Uncharted Labs Inc. and Suno Inc.—two companies already facing a lawsuit from major record labels—to ensure smaller artists are represented in the battle playing out over training AI on copyrighted works. news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/c

Artist Anthony Justice and his recording company 5th Wheel Records Inc. filed proposed class actions against Uncharted Labs, doing business as Udio com, on Monday in the US District Court for the Southern District of New Yorkand against Suno on June 14 in the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Aruni Soni #copyright #AI #music #country

news.bloomberglaw.com · Country Artist Sues AI Firms in Settlement Talks With LabelsBy Aruni Soni
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@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.

Some org (who I will name after this poll ends) published this poll on Twitter (🙄). They used the results to try to validate their POV on AI theft.

Though it won’t provide meaningful research data, I am curious to see how Mastodon responds.

(Please boost so we can get good numbers. 🙌🏻)

Question: should openly licensed content (images, music, research, etc.) be used to train AI systems? (Reply with reasoning if you feel called.)

ALL digital IP licensing of any kind is dead in the water until we have better methods to monitor and regulate AI crawl bots. Cloudflare offer hope in the future, instead of the ridiculous 'fair use' approach currently advocated.

CC licences have zero meaning atm, bots (and their owners) dont care what icons you have on your website. PERHAPS machine readable opt out (eg metadata or htaccess) might make some difference.

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

Ars Technica · Pay up or stop scraping: Cloudflare program charges bots for each crawlBy Ashley Belanger