Exclusive: Camp Network raises $25 million to help firms collect AI copyright royalties using blockchain

Exclusive: Camp Network raises $25 million to help firms collect AI copyright royalties using blockchain

State-of-the-art AI needs massive amounts of data, and AI giants like OpenAI have vacuumed up huge swathes of copyrighted material to train their chatbots and image generators. In response, content creators have filed lawsuit after lawsuit over what they allege is tech firms’ unauthorized use of their articles, books, movies, and photos. Camp Network is one of a handful of crypto startups that believe blockchains can help copyright owners enforc…

Wiley requires authorization for AI developers using its copyrighted content for training

John Wiley & Sons has released a formal position statement on “illegal scraping of copyrighted content by AI developers.” The notice makes it explicit that training or operating artificial-intelligence systems on Wiley-owned literature requires a licence, countering any suggestion of implied permission. The publisher’s stance lands amid an industry-wide debate over the provenance of large-language-model… The post Publisher Wiley tells AI develop…

AI and copyright: The training of general‑purpose AI

Written by Tristan Marcelin with Filippo Cassetti. To train their models, general-purpose AI (GPAI) providers need large datasets, which may include copyrighted materials. Despite the EU Directive 2019/790 on Copyright and the EU Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act, researchers have identified legal limitations and uncertainty in the use of copyrighted materials for GPAI training. Training GPAI AI models able to perform a wide range of distinct tas…