#fairuse — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #fairuse, aggregated by home.social.
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Sai Mamidala | Is the Use of Copyrighted Works to Train AI Models Protected Under Fair Use? — ELSSCAP www.sundaysplits.com/blog/sai-mamid… #AI #copyright #training #FairUse
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Bad Bunny and others ask judge to reconsider Reggaeton lawsuit, anime recap channels denied fair use and radio station targeted with false copyright claims.
https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2026/08/17/3-count-second-look/
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"In 2025, Anthropic reached a #settlement with publishers [as] #AI systems were trained on #copyrighted books without authorization. The agreement reportedly valued #infringement at [≈] $3,000 per #book across [≈] 500,000 works, coming at a cost of over $1.5 billion."
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/01/ai-and-the-corporate-capture-of-knowledge.html
Ergo, Anthropic admits that #LLM training with copyrighted work is not #fairUse. If this is true for works of literature, it's probably also true for #copylefted #freeSoftware. #IANAL.
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Spotify keeps taking down our episodes, so that's how you know they're good. Fortunately, we don't need Spotify. #SelfHosting #FairUse #podcast #Spotify
https://drugsandrockandroll.com/@DRRPod/posts/ac490a38-971d-4929-baa2-8d1a9b39eb18 -
FYI: Suno loses GEMA case as Munich court sets 250,000 euro penalty per breach: Judges applied US fair use law themselves and rejected it, finding model weights reproduce works. Generative model providers in Europe now face a licence bill. https://ppc.land/suno-loses-gema-case-as-munich-court-sets-250-000-euro-penalty-per-breach/ #Suno #GEMA #MunichCourt #FairUse #GenerativeAI
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ICYMI: Suno loses GEMA case as Munich court sets 250,000 euro penalty per breach: Judges applied US fair use law themselves and rejected it, finding model weights reproduce works. Generative model providers in Europe now face a licence bill. https://ppc.land/suno-loses-gema-case-as-munich-court-sets-250-000-euro-penalty-per-breach/ #Suno #GEMA #MunichCourt #GenerativeAI #FairUse
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Suno loses GEMA case as Munich court sets 250,000 euro penalty per breach: Judges applied US fair use law themselves and rejected it, finding model weights reproduce works. Generative model providers in Europe now face a licence bill. https://ppc.land/suno-loses-gema-case-as-munich-court-sets-250-000-euro-penalty-per-breach/ #GEMA #GenerativeAI #CopyrightLaw #FairUse #DigitalRights
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From #Fairways to #FairUse: Repurposing #GolfCourses
How golf courses can be repurposed to meet the needs of people and planet
Autumn 2024
by Grace Crabtree & Dan Woolley"Back in April 2020, shortly after the UK had gone into lockdown for the first time, Guy Shrubsole, the campaigner and author of Who Owns England (2019), set out to map and investigate London’s golf courses. While a natural continuation of his wider work on land ownership, it was also given particular urgency in the moment – not least for those living in densely populated cities – as the nation began to ask questions about use of, and access to, #GreenSpace.
"The results of this research produced some surprising findings. For example, although a considerable number of golf courses in Greater London are held in private ownership, the figure is less than half, at 45%. This turns out to be only slightly larger than the number owned by councils (42%). After several decades in which councils, schools, and other public institutions have been forced to sell off green space – including school playing fields and county farms – it seems pertinent to ask why so many golf courses have remained untouched.
"Happily, there are signs of progress. In #Cheshire, the #WoodlandTrust recently purchased a former golf course, and have been busy planting trees. The vision is for the site to 'develop as native broadleaf woodland' and to link with other woodland sites as part of the larger #NorthernForest, providing green space and fighting #ClimateChange.
"And further east, on the #Lincolnshire coast, the #NationalTrust is busy converting a disused golf course – #Sandilands – to 'create new habitats for a variety of #wildlife, especially migrating birds like black-tailed #godwit, spotted #redshank and #spoonbills, along with breeding birds such as #snipe, #lapwings and #oystercatchers' This environmental mission is coupled with the social objective of providing 'a space where everyone can enjoy the benefits of being in nature.'
"More controversially, perhaps, the London-based architecture firm #RCKa has developed a proposal to build housing on an existing golf course in #Enfield, at the northern end of the city. Understandably, not everyone agrees with this vision, arguing that green space, once built upon, is lost forever. However, faced with an acute and growing housing crisis, it may be useful to ask whether some compromise solutions might begin to develop at the edges. [Yes, like housing with LOTS of Green Space, including #CommunityGardens , #FoodForests , and #WildlifeCorridors ! Problem solved!]
"What the above examples demonstrate is a growing interest in the potential for repurposing golf courses, for reasons ranging from climate change mitigation and biodiversity benefits, to providing space for housing and food growing.
"Which brings us to #Glasgow, where the #GlasgowCommunityFoodNetwork (#GCFN) are leading on a proposal to transform a disused golf course into a food growing space, with much of the land restored as a richly biodiverse space where wildlife can thrive."
Read more:
https://www.stirtoaction.com/articles/from-fairways-to-fair-use#SolarPunkSunday #MoreGreenSpace #LessGolfCourses #CommunitySpaces #CommunityGardens
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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Pluralistic: Better to beg forgiveness (31 Jul 2026)
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/07/31/just-do-it/
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📚 Ah, the tragicomedy of AI's path to enlightenment: buy rare books, destroy them, and call it 'fair use.' 😂 Who needs centuries-old texts when you can have a pristine digital version? Clearly, the only thing rarer than these books is #common #sense in the AI industry. 🤖🔥
https://xcancel.com/HedgieMarkets/status/2081534588485296565 #AIenlightenment #rarebooks #fairuse #digitalversion #HackerNews #ngated -
I just used my institution's subscription to read this #paywalled article from #Sage.
https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432261462166When the Sage platform recognized that I was an authorized user, it asked me to click my consent to its terms of use before showing me the article text.
https://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/terms-of-useFirst, I've never seen that before.
Second, one of the terms purports to waive my fair-use rights. "Except as expressly permitted by this Agreement or your separate Access Agreement(s) or other agreement(s) (if applicable) or Sage's Article Access Sharing policy, you may not…copy any portion of the Site and/or Services."
BTW, it would take wide consultation and at least a full day for me to figure out whether any "separate Access Agreement(s) or other agreement(s) (if applicable)" create exceptions allowing me to copy short passages "for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching… , scholarship, or research" -- to quote 17 USC §107, the US statute on fair use.
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EU hits Google with $1 billion fine over its Play app store and search
Google had recently lost its appeal of a $4.5 billion antitrust fine imposed by the EU for throttling competition and reducing consumer choice through the dominance of its mobile Android operating system.
In the past, Trump has threatened retaliation if American tech companies are penalized.
#EU #EuropeanUnion #Google #PlayStore #Antitrust #BigTech #FairUse #FairCompetition #ConsumerProtection #Monopoly #DontBeEvil
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https://winbuzzer.com/2026/07/23/sony-sues-udio-over-30117-recordings-in-new-ai-music-case-xcxwbn/
Sony has filed a separate lawsuit against AI music generator Udio identifying 30,117 recordings used for AI training after a previous ruling kept its larger catalog out of its first case.
#AI #Udio #Sony #AIMusic #GenAI #AITraining #AIAudio #AudioGeneration #Copyright #FairUse #MusicIndustry #YouTube
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Dario will need to start signing $3K checks to the authors and publishers of an estimated 500,000 works - resulting from Anthropic’s landmark $1.5B settlement of a class action copyright lawsuit.
Here is the BUT: The ruling held that training an AI model on copyrighted text counts as fair use. The ruling found that the WAY Anthropic obtained the books in question was the problem!
Net-net this ruling doesn't settle the fundamental legal question whether AI can legally use copyright material in training. Stay tuned as more lawsuits weave thru the courts. https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/20/anthropics-landmark-1-5b-copyright-settlement-is-approved/ #AI #Anthropic #CopyRight #Lawsuit #ClassAction #LLM #LLM_Training #FairUse
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/(4 of 4) Last excerpt:
“ … whether the secondary use is transformative doesn't dictate the outcome of the first factor analysis (let alone of the entire fair use inquiry).
Also relevant is the commercial nature of Meta's use.
Although Llama is available under a free license, it was ultimately developed for commercial reasons, and Meta expects it to generate 460 billion to 1.4 trillion dollars in revenue over the next ten years. Pls. MSJ Ex. 8 at 2.”
That a use is commercial tends to weigh against a finding of fair use “because, all else equal, commercial copying is less justified than noncommercial copying. Warhol, 598 U.S. at 537 (…)
So the fact that Llama may make Meta many billions of dollars is relevant and
shouldn't be completely brushed aside, as Meta tries to do.As discussed later, if copying would result in market harm to the protected works, it could matter a great deal whether the copying was part of a for-profit endeavor as opposed to, say, an academic endeavor. …”
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from: Kadrey et al v. Meta Platforms, Inc., No. 3:2023cv03417 - Document 598.
"ORDER Denying the Plaintiffs' 482 Motion for Partial Summary Judgment ...” -
“The same is true of the manner in which Meta acquired the plaintiffs' books.
The plaintiffs are wrong that the fact that Meta downloaded the books from shadow libraries and did not start with an "authorized copy" of each book gives them an automatic win. To say that Meta's downloading was "piracy" and thus cannot be fair use begs the question because the whole point of fair use analysis is to determine whether a given act of copying was unlawful … “
“… But Meta is also wrong to suggest that its use of shadow libraries is irrelevant to whether its copying was fair use. It's relevant … “
“… The law is in flux about whether bad faith is relevant to fair use. Compare, e.g., id. at 32 … (…claiming fair use must act in a manner generally compatible with principles of good faith and fair dealing.") “
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Selected quote 3 of 4from: Kadrey et al v. Meta Platforms, Inc., No. 3:2023cv03417 - Document 598.
"ORDER Denying the Plaintiffs' 482 Motion for Partial Summary Judgment ...” -
“… This case is different. This is not a case where an original work is being compared to one secondary work. Nor is this case like the previous fair use cases involving creation of a digital tool. In those cases, like Google Books and Perfect 10, the tool could at most be used to access part or all of the original works.
This case, unlike any of those cases, involves a technology that can generate literally millions of secondary works, with a miniscule fraction of the time and creativity used to create the original works it was trained on. No other use—whether it's the creation of a single secondary work or the creation of other digital tools— has anything near the potential to flood the market with competing works the way that LLM training does.
And so the concept of market dilution becomes highly relevant In arguing that this sort of harm doesn't count just because it's never made a difference in a case before, Meta makes the mistake the Supreme Court instructs parties and courts to avoid: robotically applying concepts from previous cases without stepping back to consider context.
Fair use is meant to be a flexible doctrine that takes account of "significant changes in technology." Oracle, 593 U.S. at 19 (quoting Sony, 464 U.S. at 430).
Courts can't stick their heads in the sand to an obvious way that a new technology might severely harm the incentive to create, just because the issue has not come up before. Indeed, it seems likely that market dilution will often cause plaintiffs to decisively win the fourth factor— and thus win the fair use question overall—in cases like this.”
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Kadrey et al v. Meta Platforms, Inc., No. 3:2023cv03417 - Document 598.
"ORDER Denying the Plaintiffs' 482 Motion for Partial Summary Judgment ...” -
“The payout will deliver $3,000 per work across an estimated 500,000 works, shared among the authors and publishers who hold rights to them. While the settlement is believed to be the largest in the history of U.S. copyright law, many authors and creators still don’t view it as a win.
That’s because of how the legal question was resolved. Alsup sided with Anthropic on the core issue. He ruled that training an AI model on copyrighted text counts as fair use — a decision widely seen as a turning point for the AI industry. But the ruling didn’t excuse how Anthropic obtained the books in the first place. Anthropic had built its training library from two sources: books it purchased and scanned (fine), and books it downloaded from pirate sites like Library Genesis and Pirate Library Mirror. Alsup found the second method illegal on its own terms and said that piracy question could go to trial; Anthropic agreed to a settlement soon after to avoid a trial and whatever damages a jury might have awarded.
While the final approval closes out this case, it doesn’t settle the legal question industrywide because Alsup’s ruling was a single district court decision, and Anthropic’s decision to settle means the case will never reach an appeals court to become binding precedent.”
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/20/anthropics-landmark-1-5b-copyright-settlement-is-approved/
#AI #GenerativeAI #AITraining #Copyright #FairUse #Piracy #Anthropic #Claude
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Judge approves Anthropic book deal, Sony greatly expands legal campaign against Udio and amicus briefs filed in copyright termination case.
https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2026/07/21/3-count-done-deal/
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A fed district court just ruled that training #AI tools on copyrighted texts is #FairUse.
techcrunch.com/2026/07/20/a...
#Anthropic is in the clear for training #Claude on millions of #books w/o permission or payment. However, it's still on the hook for obtaining many of those books illegally.
Anthropic's landmark $1.5B cop... -
A federal district court just ruled that training #AI tools on copyrighted texts is fair use.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/20/anthropics-landmark-1-5b-copyright-settlement-is-approved/#Anthropic is in the clear for training #Claude on millions of books without permission or payment. However, it's liable for obtaining many of those books illegally, and its settlement of those claims (about $3k/title) was approved by the court.
So far this decision only applies in the Northern District of California. But it breaks the ice and will (as lawyers say) be "persuasive but not binding" in other districts.
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Court Grants Final Approval to Landmark $1.5 Billion Anthropic Settlement
Authors included in the settlement now stand to be paid as much as $3,000 per work. Furthermore, publishers stand to reap a major windfall, with some of the larger publishers due to receive tens of millions of dollars.
The post Court Grants Final Approval to Landmark $1.5 Billion Anthropic Settlement appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
https://publishingperspectives.com/2026/07/court-grants-final-approval-to-landmark-1-5-billion-anthropic-settlement/ -
@JorisMeys @nsfwdaily @pharmafemboy @alice
You also don't quality for " #FairUse " as none of your content is a critique, newsworthy reporting in public interest nor transformative, but entirely done to usurp the original creators' works and be a substitute for licensed access to said content.But don't take my word for it: Ask any #Lawyer worth their license…
I.e. @wbs_legal (for Germany)…
