![]() ![]() Patent and Trade Office to work with the Copyright Office on recommendations governing AI, including how copyrighted material is used to train AI. Last month, President Joe Biden issued an executive order requiring the U.S. Roughly 500,000 copyrights registrations are issued, which provide protections for original works, ideas, concepts, art, music, and other works. The Copyright Office has roughly 440 employees tasked with examining hundreds of thousands of copyright registrations each year. The Copyright Alliance, which represents over 2 million copyright holders and over 15,000 organizations, said in a comment to the Copyright Office that other than online piracy, “no copyright issue has drawn more interest from the Copyright Alliance membership than generative AI.” “Overzealous Enforcement Of Copyright” “Almost all of these AI companies are ingesting copyrighted works in order to train their AI, and in most instances they are not licensing, they’re not getting the permission, and they’re not compensating the copyright owners for using those works,” Keith Kupferschmid, CEO of the Copyright Alliance told The Lever. The use of AI was a core concern during this year’s historic writers’ and actors’ strikes. The New York Times, the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists ( SAG-AFTRA), the News Media Alliance, Getty Images, and other organizations and trade groups representing artists, musicians, and journalists have complained that AI companies are violating copyright law by copying their material and using it to train AI. economic competitiveness and national security.” Undermining those expectations will jeopardize future investment, along with U.S. “Those expectations have been a critical factor in the enormous investment of private capital into U.S.-based AI companies which, in turn, has made the U.S. “A change in this regime will significantly disrupt settled expectations in this area,” the firm continued. ![]() “Over the last decade or more, there has been an enormous amount of investment - billions and billions of dollars - in the development of AI technologies, premised on an understanding that, under current copyright law, any copying necessary to extract statistical facts is permitted,” Andreessen Horowitz wrote in a comment to the Copyright Office. Our e-books are exclusively for paid supporters of The Lever. Profits Over Patients: The Corporatization of American Health Care And What You Can Do To Protect Yourself weaves together years of investigative reporting on America’s extraordinarily complicated health care system, identifying the private interests and craven politicians profiting off misery. The fight comes as artists, actors, news organizations and others have sued AI companies using their work to train the emergent technology on how to create images in the style of certain artists, replicate voices of singers, write new literature based on copyrighted works, and many other instances in which original work is being harvested off the internet free of charge.Īs the AI industry is buffeted by executive shake ups and mounting concerns that AI systems are growing too powerful, Google, Microsoft, Meta Platforms, and Big Tech venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz have spent over $30 million lobbying lawmakers and regulators on AI and other tech-related issues.Īndreessen Horowitz - which provided funding for Airbnb, Facebook, and helped finance Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter - has even claimed that if the Copyright Office were to enforce its existing laws protecting copyrighted works from exploitation, investment dollars could be lost and U.S. The matter has triggered impassioned pushback from powerful tech interests who say they must have access to people’s hard work for free, or the future of their industry will be jeopardized. copyright law to the nascent AI industry. ![]() Copyright Office to consider how to apply U.S. Big Tech leaders are spending millions of dollars - and pushing dubious national security concerns - to try to prevent federal regulators from forcing them to pay for the copyrighted works their companies are using to train their AI systems.Īt issue is a new effort by the U.S. ![]()
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