AI Companies Are Parasites(coryd.dev)
37 points by cdrnsf | 13 comments
A personal blog opinion post on coryd.dev arguing AI companies are parasites that scrape content without compensation, train models on it, and sell metered access.
#fair-use on Hacker News
8 stories tagged fair-use, newest first.
AI companies are shredding rare books(twitter.com)
620 points by anon373839 | 372 comments
A tweet by @HedgieMarkets saying AI companies bulk-buy rare books via ISBNdb, cut off their spines to scan them, and shred the originals to obtain training data.
Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues(torrentfreak.com)
393 points by askl | 220 comments
TorrentFreak article reporting Meta's argument in a lawsuit that uploading pirated books via BitTorrent while training AI models qualifies as fair use.
Anthropic cut up millions of used books, and downloaded 7M pirated ones – judge(businessinsider.com)
383 points by pyman | 517 comments
Business Insider article on a judge's ruling that Anthropic scanned millions of cut-up used books and downloaded over 7 million pirated ones to train Claude.
US Copyright Office found AI companies breach copyright. Its boss was fired(theregister.com)
336 points by croes | 201 comments
The Register reports the head of the US Copyright Office was fired a day after the office's draft report found AI training on copyrighted works can exceed fair use.
Thomson Reuters wins first major AI copyright case in the US(wired.com)
337 points by johnneville | 141 comments
Wired article reporting that Thomson Reuters won the first major US AI copyright case, with implications for generative AI companies and rightsholders.
Parody site ClownStrike refused to bow to CrowdStrike's bogus DMCA takedown(arstechnica.com)
380 points by stalfosknight | 112 comments
Ars Technica article on how parody site ClownStrike rejected a CrowdStrike DMCA takedown notice, citing fair use.
Downloading a video should be “fair use” as recording a song from the radio(mastodon.social)
613 points by luu | 195 comments
A Mastodon post by Halvar Flake arguing that downloading YouTube videos should be fair use, linking a TorrentFreak article about the youtube-dl site going offline.