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Software Downloads Netflix & Disney+ Videos to Make DRM-Free Copies

TorrentFreak

Long before the advent of legitimate online video streaming services, torrent sites and similar platforms allowed users to download and keep copies of movies and TV shows. Is it permissible to download and keep copies of movies and TV shows if you’ve paid for a legal subscription? Subscriber Agreements.

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Facebook’s LLaMa Defeats Copyright Claims–Kadrey v. Meta

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

This short opinion squarely addresses when AI training models constitute derivative works. Simply indexing copyrighted books into the model doesn’t create derivative works (the judge calls the argument “nonsensical”) because the training model doesn’t recast or adapt the books. .”

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Generative AI: admissibility and infringement in the two US class actions against Meta’s LLaMA

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Such case law is interesting for the reconstruction of the technology deployed by Meta and the training methodology (at least from the plaintiff’s perspective) but also because the court has had the chance to preliminarily evaluate the robustness of the claims. This body of text is called the training dataset.

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Heart of the Matter: Demystifying Copying in the Training of LLMs

Velocity of Content

The latter allows the AI technology to view entire sentences, and even paragraphs, as a whole rather than as mere sequences of characters. In this way, the original use of the words, the expression of the original work, is preserved in the AI system. LLMs retain the expressions of the original works on which they have been trained.

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Creative Commons and NFTs – is CC licensing compatible with the new technologies?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

By purchasing an NFT one only purchases an actual digital token that normally contains a link to or a copy of a digital artwork. That artwork itself is a copyrighted work and the NFT owner will only have rights to that copyrighted work if these have been specifically assigned or licensed to them as required by law.

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Generative AI: the US Copyright class action against OpenAI

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Image via Pixabay Introduction: Generative AI regulatory framework There is a huge debate around Generative AI and the need to regulate such disrupting technology (see here and here ). More in detail, the EU AI Act represents a prescriptive legislative framework based on the EU model for product safety legislation.

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Artists Attack AI: Why The New Lawsuit Goes Too Far

Copyright Lately

(If you’re interested in doing a deeper dive into how all of this works, I recommend following Andres Guadamuz’s blog on the topic.) With a proper understanding of the technology, we can see that the complaint’s repeated description of Stable Diffusion as a “21st-Century collage tool,” while perhaps catchy, simply isn’t accurate.