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A French collecting society wants a tax on generative AI, payable to…collecting societies

Back in October last year, Walled Culture wrote about a proposed law in France that would see a tax imposed on AI companies, with the proceeds being paid to a collecting society. Now that the EU’s AI Act has been adopted, it is being invoked as another reason why just such a system should be set up. The French collecting society SPEDIDAM (which translates as […]

#aiAct #aiTax #collectingSocieties #eu #france #spedidam

https://walledculture.org/a-french-collecting-society-wants-a-tax-on-generative-ai-payable-tocollecting-societies/

Good artists copy, great artists steal – and generative AI does the marketing for both

The attacks on generative AI started out claiming that it was all about protecting the creators whose works were being “stolen” in some mysterious way by virtue of software analysing them. In some cases, that high-minded stance has already degenerated into yet another scheme to pay collecting societies even more for doing next to nothing. But beyond all this …

#advertising #beatles #beethoven #collectingSocieties #generativeAi #haydn #marketing #midjourney #mikeLoukides #mozart #photorealism #picasso #tSEliot #vermeer

https://walledculture.org/good-artists-copy-great-artists-steal-and-generative-ai-does-the-marketing-for-both/

Another #CopyrightAbsurdity: UK Performing Right Society insists that every copyright is sacred. NO exceptions, not even when it's actually to @HelpMusicians - @glynmoody
#copyright #PRS #UK #CollectingSocieties
https://walledculture.org/uk-performing-right-society-insists-that-every-copyright-is-sacred-no-exceptions/