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jonathanemmett.com
Great to see new software that’s flagging up copyright theft instead of engaging in it.

#CopyrightAndAI
October 18, 2025 at 4:27 PM
jonathanemmett.com
📣 AUTHORS 📣

This is a $1.5 billion copyright settlement for the use of pirated books to train an AI model.

If your book is included in the list that can be searched on this page – secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup – then you may be able to claim a share of it.

#CopyrightAndAI
October 2, 2025 at 9:52 AM
jonathanemmett.com
"Any enjoyment you might get from weird, funny AI slop tends to be undercut when you know that someone's hard work was stolen in order to create it."

John Oliver lays into AI slop.

youtu.be/TWpg1RmzAbc?...

#CopyrightAndAI
AI Slop: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
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August 8, 2025 at 7:47 AM
jonathanemmett.com
I'd add cultural costs to the list in the last sentence, given Labour's proposed copyright exemption for generative AI.

#CopyrightAndAI
georgemonbiot.bsky.social George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Aug 1
By supporting the expansion of Heathrow Airport and spreading outright lies about decarbonising flying, Labour has again capitulated to lobbyists.
This is its defining characteristic: doing whatever powerful lobbyists ask, regardless of the social, environmental and even political costs.
August 1, 2025 at 9:27 AM
jonathanemmett.com
If you're in the publishing community and have been using WeTransfer to share work with publishers and others, but don't want your work exploited by AIs without compensation, YOU NEED TO STOP USING WETRANSFER!

#CopyrightAndAI

@societyofauthors.bsky.social

Source: wetransfer.com/explore/lega...
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July 15, 2025 at 9:14 AM
jonathanemmett.com
This week's IN OUR TIME on "The Evolution of Copyright" makes for interesting listening in the light of the current controversy over #CopyrightAndAI.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
In Our Time - Copyright - BBC Sounds
The evolution of copyright.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 15, 2025 at 9:29 AM
elliottbledsoe.bsky.social
4️⃣ Australia’s literary peak bodies lash out over Meta’s use of LibGen to train its AI.
#CopyrightAndAI #LibGen

5️⃣ You have likely seen the Hayao Miyazaki-style images on your feeds, but what, if anything, can Studio Ghibli do?
#CopyrightAndAI #OpenAI #HayaoMiyazaki #StudioGhibli
WTF now?!: Monday 24–Sunday 30 March 2025
The arts was left out of the budget, another artist has been persecuted for pro-Palestine beliefs, OpenAI lets you make Studio Ghibli style images and more.
eb.wtf
April 4, 2025 at 12:20 PM
wiobs.bsky.social
ChatGPT Surges as Viral Ghibli AI Art Grips the Internet
wiobs.com/chatgpt-surg...
#ChatGPT #AIart #StudioGhibli #GenerativeAI #OpenAI #GPT4o #AICreativity #Miyazaki #DigitalArt #CopyrightAndAI
ChatGPT Surges as Viral Ghibli AI Art Grips the Internet - WIOBS
ChatGPT’s image tool sparked a record user surge after a viral Ghibli-style trend. Explore the AI boom, legal debates, and...
wiobs.com
April 1, 2025 at 3:25 PM
elliottbledsoe.bsky.social
WTF else happened?:

A US court reaffirmed human authorship for AI copyright protection, the Resale Royalty Scheme will extend to nine more countries at month’s end
#CopyrightAndAI #ResaleRoyalty
WTF now?!: Monday 17–Sunday 23 March 2025
Skills shortages in the arts, Big Tech want less regulation, search the LibGen library to see if your book trained AI, music copyright cases and more.
eb.wtf
March 24, 2025 at 11:07 AM
elliottbledsoe.bsky.social
3️⃣ The Atlantic has a search tool to see if you were included in Meta’s AI training data.
#CopyrightAndAI #BooksAndPublishing #LibGen @theatlantic.com
WTF now?!: Monday 17–Sunday 23 March 2025
Skills shortages in the arts, Big Tech want less regulation, search the LibGen library to see if your book trained AI, music copyright cases and more.
eb.wtf
March 24, 2025 at 11:07 AM
elliottbledsoe.bsky.social
2️⃣ ‘Kadrey v Meta’ court documents reveal Meta dropped attempts to get licences from book publishers to train their AI systems.
#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Copyright #CopyrightAndAI

3️⃣ Meta wants to link five continents to a huge subsea internet cable.
#Meta #InternetInfrastructure
WTF now?!: Monday 17–Sunday 23 February 2025
There is much ado about Meta this week: revealing court documents, ambitious undersea internet cable projects, abandoning Mardi Gras and staff layoffs while fattening executive bonuses.
eb.wtf
February 24, 2025 at 9:58 AM
jonathanemmett.com
Good to see a university professor flagging up mass theft of IP "without permission of authors/creators … leading to their mass joblessness" as one of the many ethical reasons for her students to avoid using generative AI.
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

I hope the UK Gov't are getting this message too!
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jksteinberger.bsky.social Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · Feb 23
As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity.

TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄
February 23, 2025 at 2:01 PM
jonathanemmett.com
The government's preferred proposal on #CopyrightAndAI will have a crippling effect on the UK's creative industries.

So, if you're NOT a creative, but you value the arts and like living in a country that has a healthy creative industry and can spare the time to object to this proposal, please do!
February 18, 2025 at 3:08 PM
elliottbledsoe.bsky.social
3️⃣ The cost of training AI is going down, but a recent copyright court case could increase costs. If ‘Thomson Reuters v Ross’ is followed by other courts then AI developers may have to start factoring in copyright fees.
#Copyright #ArtificialIntelligence #CopyrightAndAI
WTF now?!: Monday 10–Sunday 16 February 2025
Creative Australia buckled under political pressure, Elon Musk is crusading against OpenAI and Wikipedia and a copyright and AI verdict changes things.
eb.wtf
February 17, 2025 at 9:55 AM
jonathanemmett.com
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If you've signed the statement at aitrainingstatement.org addressing the same issue, you might want to sign this open letter as well. It was initiated by illustrators, but open to anyone working in the creative industries.
The more pushback the better on this!

#KidLitUK #CopyrightAndAI
Objection to the Government's Proposed Copyright Exemption for Generative AI Training
To add your name to this letter, please fill and submit the form at the bottom. Wednesday 12th February 2025: We are some among the 2.4 million working in the UK creative industries. We are staring i...
docs.google.com
February 13, 2025 at 10:06 AM
jonathanemmett.com
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Microsoft 365 is imposing a £25 per year subscription increase to cover the cost of their Copilot AI software.

If you don't want to let their AI see everything you type, you can find instructions on how to opt out here:
www.howtogeek.com/avoid-paying...

#KidLitUK #CopyrightAndAI
How to Avoid Paying for Microsoft 365 Copilot by Downgrading to Classic
Don't be forced to pay more against your will!
www.howtogeek.com
February 12, 2025 at 12:45 PM
jonathanemmett.com
“The gov't is suggesting a wholesale transfer of wealth from a hugely successful sector that invests hundreds of millions in the UK to a tech industry that extracts profit that is not assured and will accrue largely to the US and indeed China.”

Beeban Kidron on the gov't's #CopyrightAndAI proposal.
February 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
jonathanemmett.com
🚩The UK government's refusal to sign a pledge for an "open", "inclusive" and "ethical" approach to AI development will be a red flag to UK creatives already concerned by its proposed policy on #CopyrightAndAI.
🚩Siding with the Trump gov't on this is a second red flag.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK and US refuse to sign international AI declaration
It follows a warning from US Vice President JD Vance that excessive regulation could
www.bbc.co.uk
February 11, 2025 at 1:32 PM
jonathanemmett.com
"Personalised" AI-written books like the one featured in this article may be "designed to be a light-hearted form of consumer AI", but they are grim portent of the shape of things to come for anyone who makes their living from writing. ☹️
#CopyrightAndAI
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
How an AI-written book shows why the tech 'terrifies' creatives
The BBC's technology editor Zoe Kleinman is given an AI-made book that claims it was written by her.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 2, 2025 at 10:55 AM
jonathanemmett.com
I’ve just written to my MP regarding the government’s new proposal on Copyright and AI.

The government thinks the proposal will be good for the economy.

This is the argument I gave for why the long-term economic implications of the proposal will be catastrophic.

#CopyrightAndAI #SocietyOfAuthors
While permitting AI to cannibalise the work of human creators may result in a short-term boost to the UK economy, its long-term economic implications will be catastrophic.
As genuine human creativity is inevitably squeezed out of the creative sector, AI will increasingly be feeding off its own output, producing increasingly derivative, stale, soulless art which will be indistinguishable from the AI generated output produced by other countries. As a consequence, the UK will lose its creative edge and with it, its position as a world-leader in the creative industries.
January 17, 2025 at 12:21 PM