lingo.lol is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
A place for linguists, philologists, and other lovers of languages.

Server stats:

62
active users

#Ⓒopyright

8 posts8 participants0 posts today

Atlassian announced their CLI agent 2 days ago…
atlassian.com/blog/announcemen

…and it's already been reversed engineered by AI tools.
ghuntley.com/atlassian-rovo-so

The result is a clean‐room specification, a non-derivative reference implementation. I.e., no copyright protection.

LLMs not only will end human developers, they'll end any proprietary software.

Work Life by Atlassian · Rovo Dev agent, now available in the CLI - Work Life by AtlassianRovo Dev Agent is now available in the CLI, turning your command line into an intelligent development agent that understands, codes, and collaborates with you.

"Disney and Universal sued a prominent artificial intelligence start-up for copyright infringement on Wednesday, bringing Hollywood belatedly into the increasingly intense battle over generative A.I.

The movie companies sued Midjourney, an A.I. image generator that has tens of millions of registered users. The 110-page lawsuit contends that Midjourney “helped itself to countless” copyrighted works to train its software, which allows people to create images (and soon videos) that “blatantly incorporate and copy Disney’s and Universal’s famous characters.”

“Midjourney is the quintessential copyright free-rider and a bottomless pit of plagiarism,” the companies said in the lawsuit, which was filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles.
Midjourney did not respond to requests for comment.

A.I. start-ups like Midjourney, which was introduced in 2022, train their software with data scraped from the internet and elsewhere, often without compensating creators. The practice has resulted in lawsuits from authors, artists, record labels and news organizations, among others. (The New York Times has sued OpenAI and its partner, Microsoft, for copyright infringement. OpenAI and Microsoft have denied those claims, saying their actions fall under “fair use.”)"

nytimes.com/2025/06/11/busines

Midjourney’s A.I.-generated image of Darth Vader.
The New York Times · Disney and Universal Sue A.I. Firm Midjourney for Copyright InfringementBy Brooks Barnes

As an author, I believe AI companies should license creative works for training, not take them without permission. Join me in urging Congress and the president to protect creators' rights! #copyright #AI

The creative industries contribute $2 trillion to our economy and employ 11+ million people. Let's protect this vital sector from unlicensed AI training. #copyright #AI

copyrightalliance.org/get-invo

Copyright Alliance · Take ActionYour Voice Matters, It's Time to Take Action! Below you’ll find the campaigns that the Copyright Alliance is facilitating. We encourage all creators and friends of the creative community to review the campaigns and participate in the ones that

UK ministers delay #AI regulation amid plans for more ‘comprehensive’ bill - theguardian.com/technology/202 "Law expected to include safety and #copyright issues but delay likely to raise concerns about ongoing lack of regulation" kicking the can down the road...

The Guardian · UK ministers delay AI regulation amid plans for more ‘comprehensive’ billBy Eleni Courea
Replied in thread

Next was a fantastic talk by Kristelia García on legal fixes to access to content issues at Yale ISP. García lays out how self-preferencing, copysquatting, and disappearing content break the fundamental social contract of copyright law - society provides creators with a limited-time monopoly in exchange for access. She then makes a compelling case for action (admittedly unlikely in the US in the near term). Highly recommend youtube.com/watch?v=A0bZE1gAIT (4/9) #copyright #law

"The history of American popular music shows that the degree of agency an unsigned artist has to negotiate terms with industry representation can be profoundly affected by their class, race, and gender. Very few artists will ever reach the level of popularity and profitability that Swift enjoys, but by raising public discourse about music copyright she has helped to reinvigorate conversations about the value of music."

time.com/7290761/music-copyrig

TIME · The History of Music Copyright—Before (Taylor's Version)Taylor Swift has raised public awareness about the intricacies of copyright law and the value of artists' work.

#ElonMusk Claimed the #Art This Man Painstakingly Created Was Generated by #Grok

Over the weekend, Elon #Musk shared Grok altered #photographs of people walking through the interior of instruments and implied that his #AI system had created the beautiful and surreal images. But the underlying photos are the work of artist #CharlesBrooks , who wasn’t credited
#copyright

404media.co/elon-musk-claimed-

404 Media · Elon Musk Claimed the Art This Man Painstakingly Created Was Generated by GrokCharles Brooks knows that people will share and alter his work. He just wants credit for his photos when it happens.

Just a reminder that I have a collection of articles, podcasts, and academic papers on AI. It focuses on controversies, issues, legal questions, and bad behavior by AI companies.

The collection is now up to 1,992 items and started in 2022. Find it here:

zotero.org/bjrussell/collectio

It is tagged as I'm a librarian, and I'm compelled to do so. Feel free to send me articles you find as well!

www.zotero.orgZotero | Your personal research assistant

#OpenAI says court forcing it to save all #ChatGPT logs is a #privacy nightmare

OpenAI is now fighting a court order to preserve all ChatGPT user logs—including deleted chats and sensitive chats logged through its API business offering—after news organizations suing over #copyright claims accused the #AI company of destroying #evidence.

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

Ars Technica · OpenAI says court forcing it to save all ChatGPT logs is a privacy nightmareBy Ashley Belanger