Well this is disturbing. Nine of my books are included in this list. FU Meta.
Check to see if yours were used - www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/
#books #ai #artificialintelligence #writingcommunity #authorlife #writinglife #theft #intellectualproperty
#intellectualproperty
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The #law also refers to other elements that can’t be attributed to a #machine, Millet said, when it requires an #author’s “signature” to transfer, talks about co-authors’ “intention,” & refers to an author’s “nationality or domicile.”
“Machines do not have property, traditional human lifespans, family members, domiciles, nationalities, mentes reae, or signatures,” Millet said, later adding that “the #Copyright Act makes no sense if an ‘author’ is not a human being.”
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Millet wrote that the text of the #Copyright Act of 1976, “taken as a whole, is best read as making humanity a necessary condition for authorship.” That #law treats copyright as a heritable #property right, suggesting an entity that can’t own property or have heirs can’t be an #author. It also couches copyright terms to a #human lifespan, she noted.
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The panel declined to rule more broadly on whether or when creating an #AI or prompting it could give rise to #copyright protection, instead simply rejecting the concept of entirely autonomous authorship. It also said it didn’t need to reach the Copyright Office’s argument that the constitution itself requires #human authorship.
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The opinion by Circuit Judge Patricia A. Millett lays down the first precedential marker regarding how #copyright #law treats works created by #AI. While it sided w/the US Copyright Office’s operating position by finding #human authorship is required for registration, it could create or reinforce perceptions in creative industries that AI’s contributions to a work represent unprotectable creative choices that can be freely copied.
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#Human authorship is required for #copyright protection, a DC Circuit panel ruled in a landmark opinion that represents a setback for a push to award #IntellectualProperty protections to #AI creations.
Computer scientist Stephen Thaler argued a copyright should be registered to his AI program for 2D art titled “A Recent Entrance to Paradise.”But copyright protects human creation, & Thaler waived his alt argument that he created the work through creating the…program…
#law
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/human-authorship-required-to-register-copyright-d-c-cir-rules
news.bloomberglaw.com · Denial of Copyright to AI 'Author' Affirmed by D.C. Circuit (3)
US appeals court rules AI generated art cannot be copyrighted
I hope countries around the world feel emboldened to repeal all the intellectual property laws that they adopted in return for favorable terms of trade with the US. None of it matters any more. It should be apparent now that US tariffs are getting applied RANDOMLY, to countries EVEN WHEN THEY COMPLY WITH ALL TRADE DEALS. I hope they do themselves a favor and free their societies from the shackles of US economic imperialism and innovate in a way that US companies cannot.
OK! so, been here 'bout 0.5 years now, so I guess I'm overdue for an #Introduction post, so here goes
"Rufus" is a pseudonym; out in meat-space, I'm a database admin for #BigLaw, with a focus on #IntellectualProperty
The place where I work (which I love, mostly!) has a social media policy that amounts to, "We'll know violations of this policy if we see them"
So, that's why the pseudonym
When I'm not administrating an intellectual property database, I'm shopping for #WeirdOldGuitars, 1/?