When AI plunders IP, who is to blame: man or machine?
- lastmansurfing
- 2 days ago
- 1 min read
If you hadn't noticed, content owners are starting to draw battle lines over the vexed issue of copyright protection in the age of AI.
Disney is sending cease and desist letters to Google, Warner Bros. Discovery is suing gen-AI giant Midjourney, and the BBC has accused Perplexity of scraping its website. Even Deadline's parent company, Penske Media Corporation, has issued a writ over Google AI summaries killing search traffic.
In this context, it's not surprising that one of the industry's most coordinated AI campaigns sprang up last week. Boasting the support of Scarlett Johansson and Cate Blanchett, the "Stealing Isn't Innovation" movement has coalesced around a 130-word statement decrying artistic "theft."
The statement does not name any harbingers of doom, but is pretty clear that the fault lies with tech titans, whom signatories accuse of looting copyrighted material "without authorization or regard" for the law.
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