Publishing’s Latest Piracy Problem: Audiobooks on YouTube

Illegal, synthetically narrated copies of “The Hunger Games,” hit self-help books and everything in between are increasingly common on the platform.

The New York Times

HackerNewsTop5 (@hackernewstop5)

Hacker News에서 AI를 '무단 복제(unauthorised plagiarism)'로 보는 비판적 논점이 공유되었습니다. 모델 학습 데이터, 저작권, 생성형 AI의 정당성에 대한 논쟁을 반영하며, AI 개발·배포와 관련한 법적/윤리적 리스크 인식을 확인할 수 있습니다.

https://x.com/hackernewstop5/status/2057465582581370972

#ai #copyright #plagiarism #hackernews #ethics

HackerNewsTop5 (@hackernewstop5) on X

AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale #HackerNews https://t.co/mNxAVpuYwN

X (formerly Twitter)
The #Copyright Trap - https://ecipe.org/publications/copyright-trap/ "While the #EU invests billions of euros in public funds to build world-class supercomputing and #AI-related infrastructure, its restrictive digital regulations constrain the data needed for its private AI economy to flourish. " #tdm
The Copyright Trap |

Kilkenny County Council have published yet another document full of maps derived from OpenStreetMap without any attribution. Rather than me having to manually compare their maps with OSM and Táilte Éireann data and wasting time I could spend mapping, I would appreciate a tool doing that for me - "Is it OSM?". Green boxes are OSM, red are TÉ. #copyright #OpenStreetMap
Publishing’s Latest Piracy Problem: Audiobooks on YouTube

Illegal, synthetically narrated copies of “The Hunger Games,” hit self-help books and everything in between are increasingly common on the platform.

The New York Times
New Publication - Matthew Rimmer, 'Night at the Artificial Museum: Copyright Law and Artificial Intelligence', (2026) 18(1) Culture Unbound 151-210
https://cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/article/view/5601 #copyright #AI #GLAM #openaccess #OA #uslaw #uspol Part of a special collection on Digital Cultural Heritage, Authenticity, and AI edited by Marc Stuhldreier, Martin Fredriksson, Rosa Ballardini, Bodil Axelsson, and Kristina Kovaitėis https://cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/issue/view/523
He stole their film – so they made a movie about him as revenge

When two young filmmakers in Germany discovered an American was passing off their work as his own, they confronted him – with the cameras rolling.

The Sydney Morning Herald

Hey #lawFedi:

How many ways besides libel can a false statement, whether on its own, or in combination with something else, be made to constitute civil or criminal offence? (What suffices to constitute fraud? negligent misrepresentation? breach of contract or warranty? tortuous interference? perjury? etc.…?)

Suppose a rudimentary open-source #DRM were to be implemented in web servers and web browsers (or a web-browser add-on), such that the key to the TPM comprises proof of the user's agreement to and utterance of legal statements to the effect that they're not using "generative AI" (plagiarism synthesis) to interact with the site, will not use it during that interaction, and will not allow any #genAI software to access information from it or disclose that information to any entity that would? Suppose the ToS for the site were to require that perfunctory DRM.

Would there be a way to exploit #DMCA1201 and/or the #CFAA to make it an offence (whether a crime, or a viable cause to sue) to bypass that DRM in order to interact with the website?

Maybe @lessig or #EbenMoglen (anyone know him?) could draft something, to do to AI, through inversion of intent of those laws, as #copyleft to #copyright?

@mgeist Would those laws correspond approximately to CMA §41 and to §342 of the Criminal Code?

Good Grief: ‘Peanuts’ Music Owners Launch Legal Blitz Over ‘Charlie Brown Christmas’ Songs

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.billboard.com/pro/peanuts-music-lawsuits-charlie-brown-christmas-songs-sues/

Years long fight over users' right to tweak #smartTV software heads to trial

For years, owners of #Vizio smart TVs have had little control over the software running on their sets—software that can track viewing habits, push ads, and generally shape the experience of using the device.
#privacy #gpl #linux #tv #copyright

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/05/inside-the-fight-to-force-vizio-to-share-linux-based-source-code-for-its-tvs-os/

Yearslong fight over users' right to tweak smart TV software heads to trial

Access to TV OS's source code could allow users to limit ads, tracking.

Ars Technica