News Summary: Judge Gives Preliminary Approval to Anthropic Settlement Covering 482,000 Books
As promised, here is an update on yesterday’s hearing in the Anthropic case. This is very much breaking and emerging news.
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/news-anthropic-settlement/
#Anthropicsettlement #classactionlawsuit #rightsholders #USCopyrightOffice
#Copyright Is Not a Tool to #Silence Critics of #ReligiousEducation
But sometimes, unscrupulous #rightsholders misuse copyright law to bully critics into silence by filing meritless lawsuits, threatening potentially enormous personal liability unless they cease speaking out.
#rights
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/08/copyright-not-tool-silence-critics-religious-education
Copyright law is not a tool to punish or silence critics. This is a principle so fundamental that it is the ur-example of fair use, which typically allows copying another’s creative work when necessary for criticism. But sometimes, unscrupulous rightsholders misuse copyright law to bully critics...
If you ever considered donating to strategic litigation orgs like @Freiheitsrechte, or host your own servers ethically like with @ubernauten, now is the time:
"#Youtube-dl Site Goes Offline as #Hosting Provider Enforces Court-Ordered Ban"
https://torrentfreak.com/youtube-dl-site-goes-offline-as-hosting-provider-enforces-court-ordered-ban-230809/
#copyright #youtubedl #sony #warner #universal #rightsholders
#RichardKadrey, and #SarahSilverman are latest authors who've filed lawsuits againt Zuck's #Meta and #OpenAI over #copyright infringement of their works. They are amongst a growing trend of #IntellectualProperty #rightsholders including #GettyPhotos seeking #legal redress from data scraping #ArtificialIntelligence corps