Ever since the generative artificial intelligence (GAI) controversy began heating up, I’ve had several conversations with friends and colleagues who are voice actors and have had to disappoint them by repeating the fact that copyright law does not protect a person’s “likeness,” which includes one’s voice. And I’ve had similar conversations with colleagues focused on replication of likeness for the ...
A little-known Senate resolution called the Local Radio Freedom Act (LRFA) is a clever move by whoever thought of it. It has no force of law but instead asks Congress to sign a pledge to enshrine an unfair and unfounded policy whereby terrestrial radio broadcasters shall never pay royalties to musical artists. Why? Because that’s how it’s always been. In ...
On July 11, Senators Cantwell, Blackburn, and Heinrich introduced a bill called the Content Origin Protection and Integrity from Edited and Deepfake (COPIED) Media Act. One of many AI related bills in Congress, the heart of COPIED is transparency in artificial intelligence through implementation of content provenance information (CPI). COPIED requires development of industry standards to create “machine-readable information documenting ...
It’s been nearly ten years since I first heard the term “revenge porn” and wrote a speculative post inspired by then Rep. Jackie Speier’s bill to make the act a federal crime. Much has transpired since then, including the obsolescence of the term “revenge porn” and the progress of generative artificial intelligence (GAI), which has already changed the nature of ...
In February 2023, I argued that using copyrighted works for the purpose of training generative artificial intelligence (GAI) products is not fair use. My view in that post was, and remains, that because the purpose of copyright law is to promote authorship, and authorship is human as a matter of doctrine, then a purpose which replaces authorship is facially antithetical ...
