Some of the world’s largest music publishers filed a blockbuster lawsuit against Anthropic late Friday night, alleging “one of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts of intellectual property in history.”
I don’t see how this would go any differently to the book lawsuit they settled.
With that lawsuit, the court found that training the LLM on books is covered under fair use, as long as the books are legally acquired and they do not make illegal copies. (obviously, they can’t use data fron Anna’s Archive any more)
The argument is that them training on the books does not impact sales of the books themselves - someone that was going to buy the book would still buy it even if an LLM was trained on it, just like they’d still buy it even if summaries/CliffNotes and reviews exist. The training is considered transformative as the LLM learns the relationship between the words rather than retaining the text of the books as-is, and transformative use is allowed under fair use.
This is why the AI companies are destroying books - they have to destroy any books they scan in order to comply with US copyright law. Transforming the book from one form to another (eg from print to digital) is OK as long as only one copy remains.
I’m not saying I agree or disagree, just that this is the current state of copyright caselaw in the USA.
Having said that, the music industry is significantly more litigious than the book industry, so we’ll see what happens…
DRM bros vs AI bros
It’s like watching bullies fight. I want both of them to lose but in the meantime, I’m just gonna just enjoy the popcorn and cheer whenever a punch is thrown
Publishers, not labels
Shouldn’t this be posted in UpliftingNews?
When they win
Neh… they’re all asshats, too. It’s the artists that need to win
