A recent report revealed that 50% of the data used to train artificial intelligence systems may infringe on copyrights. This finding led to the immediate dismissal of the Copyright Office director. The report highlighted significant issues within the AI industry, prompting a swift response from authorities. The statistics from the report indicate a major challenge for AI developers who must now navigate complex copyright laws. This situation underscores the need for clearer guidelines and regulations in the rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence. The dismissal of the director marks a pivotal moment, as the industry grapples with these new revelations and their implications.
Luiza Jarovsky
@LuizaJarovsky
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May 10 BREAKING: The U.S. Copyright Office SIDES WITH CONTENT CREATORS, concluding in its latest report that the fair use exception likely does not apply to commercial AI training. From the report’s conclusion:
“Various uses of copyrighted works in AI training are likely to be
Ed Newton-Rex
@ednewtonrex
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May 22 ‘You can’t copyright ideas’ is a straw man.
It’s not the ideas that are copyrighted, it’s the work. And the work is copied, repeatedly, in AI training.
AI boosters respond by saying that, even though works are copied, their use is ‘non-expressive’: training is only concerned
Ed Newton-Rex
@ednewtonrex
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May 12 The Copyright Office’s report on generative AI training is superb – thoughtful, thorough, and clear in rejecting the idea that all gen AI training is fair use.
A few things jumped out:
1. A use is less transformative if it ultimately serves the same purpose as the original.
Ed Newton-Rex
@ednewtonrex
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Jun 2 More evidence that generative AI competes with the work it’s trained on, and the people behind that work.
Illustrators, copywriters, graphic designers out of work.
This is a key reason training data must be licensed, and gen AI training is not fair use
https://theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/31/the-workers-who-lost-their-jobs-to-ai-chatgpt…
Jason Kint
@jason_kint
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May 11 Excellent. The Copyright Office report yesterday affirms what our members – and the broader creative community – have long contended: that the wholesale ingestion of copyrighted works to train gen AI models without consent or compensation is NOT fair use under current law. /1
Mal Fletcher
@malfletcher
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May 31 In late 2024, the UK government launched a consultation proposing that #AI companies be allowed to use copyrighted artistic material for training models unless rights holders explicitly opt out. Surely, a fairer solution would be to forbid use by AI unless creators opt IN!
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