Jacob Ward
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Jul 2025
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in order to hand the big AI companies the right to basically just use those copyrighted works.
Over this past weekend, Sherry Perlmutter, who is the head of the Copyright Office in the United States, learned by email on a Saturday that she had been fired.
And this I don't think is a coincidence.
Most of the observers that I've been speaking to say it is probably not a coincidence that she got fired right after releasing the third part of a big report on AI that basically said that the Copyright Office was beginning to think that more and more AIs
might be in violation of copyright or at the very least might owe creative people some consideration of the exclusive rights they have under copyright before these companies feed this stuff into training their AI systems.
Now
I have a piece up at TheRibCurrent.com about this whole thing.
And if you look back several months, you can also see one called The Exact Moment We Gave It All to AI.
And this is a moment, a historical moment that I think about a lot because back in the late 2000s and early 2010s,
There was a big fight brewing over Google Books, which at that time had basically sort of begun without anyone's permission, just scanning in copyrighted books.
And what they argued when they were finally sued by two different big authors groups about it,
was we are in fact transforming this work, these pieces of literature, these pieces of nonfiction, these history books, into a whole different thing.
What we're making is an academic resource that people can use to study up on something.
And as a result, they fell under what in copyright law is known as fair use.
If something is transformative, if it turns what was a product of the market into an entirely new interpretation of that product, one that doesn't seek to replace the old one, but is a new version of it with new value, that's considered fair game.
That's fair use.
And Google Books went on and on fighting about this in court.
And there was a brief moment when a judge almost said to them, you know what?
I don't know that this is fair use.
I think you may actually owe these authors something.
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