Copyright
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Roy: AI Copyright Guidance or Resolution Will Arrive by Year-End 2025
“I, one of my predictions has been, like, we're gonna start to get some guidance or resolution, I think, by the end of this year, in terms of, like, how copyright will play out, and we need it.”
Micha Kaufman: Copyright law is dead overnight due to generative AI
“You know, that copyright is dead essentially. It is dead. It's a notion from 1710, and it's dead overnight. There is no copyright. It's done. It's dead.”
Wolfe: AI-Generated Art Should Belong to the Human Prompter
“To your core question, yes, I think that if I do a calculation, and I'm using a calculator instead of like doing math by pencil, that calculation is still an input into my output. If I'm using AI to generate Art and it's my prompt instead of the gesture of my …”
Matty Mo: Artistic creation processes and techniques generally lack copyright protection
“Now you could do this without permission and just go out and do it because there's no real copyright on the process for the most part.”
Google initially delayed streaming Bard responses to complete real-time copyright checks
“One of the things that we started to see in some of these outputs as you start to kind of stream them out is, well, even though it was a function of probability and not regurgitation of copyrighted material, you would get a response, and then at the end of the…”
Evans: Synthesizing styles from millions of images isn't copyright infringement; direct copying is
“If I've now looked at millions of pictures of wizards and I draw something, do I have to pay them? Like, no. If I copy your thing, do I have to pay you? Well, yes.”
Accessible open-source licensing depends fundamentally on respecting copyright law
“I'm a big believer in copyright. I choose to license my copyright in a way that's accessible to everyone, but, The core of that is a respect for copyright.”
Doctorow: Copyright law should exempt consumers outside the entertainment industry
“There are a bunch of rules that I would like for copyright, but the most important copyright reform, the thing that gets lost whenever we talk about copyright reform, Is that we should just stop asking people who aren't in the entertainment industry to give a …”
Mestel: Non-Wealthy Artists Must Still Trade Catalog Rights for Capital
“Well, the smart artists of today are putting themselves in a position to own their own music, their own copyrights. I think that it depends on the resources that the artists themselves have. Most artists aren't wealthy to the extent that artists need money. Th…”