“Access to culture must encompass access to careers in culture” — IAWG Chair @jenniferdavidson.bsky.social on limitations and exceptions @wipo.int Standing Committee on Copyright & Related Rights. #AI

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org

“Access to culture must encompass access to careers in culture” — IAWG Chair @jenniferdavidson.bsky.social on limitations and exceptions @wipo.int Standing Committee on Copyright & Related Rights. #AI

A detailed, line-by-line critique of OpenAI’s objectives is laid out by @edwardongwesojr.com and @jathansadowski.com in this week’s episode of @thismachinekills.bsky.social 3/

The “right to AI” is already popping up in global policy discussions. How about a “right of refusal” instead? 2/

About that OpenAI Industrial Policy … 1/

Skill issue

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It turns out when you try to serve slop on a product people pay for, no one wants it. www.404media.co/disneys-open...

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Fantastic news in the UK today - the government has apparently ditched its plan to force creatives to 'opt out' if they don't want AI companies training on their life's work. www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog... 🧵 1/4

Time to add Agency to ART principles when discussing AI policy and culture. (Authorization, Remuneration, Transparency)

AI-generated artwork is officially not eligible for copyright protection after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the appeal. The court ruled that a work must have a human creator to qualify for copyright protection. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Limitations and exceptions were designed for libraries, archives & research institutions - not for commercial cos who are financially well able to pay for licences - if the creatives who own the work choose to allow it to be sold. If this U.K. government tactic happens it’s underwriting theft.

We’ve been paying close attention to treaty language around limitations and exceptions at WIPO’s Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights. This is what we’ve been concerned about.

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work. This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public. Please spread the word. 🧵 1/4

Starting to hear buzz about Valerie Veatch's @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social and want to where you can see it? They've got a form on their website to bring Ghost in the Machine to your university, club, festival, institution, or any other place with a screen + humans, virtual or IRL. notaidoc.com

An excellent resource for creative orgs and policy development/lobbying just dropped. #UNESCO #2005Convention unes.co/qpo6vh

Screenwriters generate billions in the economic value of culture around the world. Letting AI companies build products by stealing their work without authorization threatens jobs, livelihoods, and long-standing protections. #StealingIsntInnovation

We're not anti-tech, we're anti-theft. If the future of “innovation” depends on stealing creators’ work without asking or paying, that’s not progress - it's stealing, and we shouldn’t accept it. #StealingIsntInnovation www.stealingisntinnovation.com/

Screenwriters generate billions in the economic value of culture around the world. Letting AI companies build products by stealing their work without authorization threatens jobs, livelihoods, and long-standing protections. #StealingIsntInnovation

Really useful resource here for Guilds and other civil society orgs engaging in consultations around AI.

Well done, German civil society. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I honestly don’t get the value of this company. They hoover up energy and water. Their product constantly gets things wrong and, in extreme cases, coaches people into suicide. And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft. What does OpenAI offer the world?

Funding bodies and production tax incentives in several countries are already making “Made By Humans” a condition. 👏🏻

Australia’s on a roll … www.bbc.com/news/article...

In huge positive news, the Australian government just ruled out handing the work of their country’s creatives to AI companies for free 🙌 They resisted the well-funded tech lobby & shut down proposals to upend copyright law. Other governments should do the same! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

“Artificial intelligence presents significant opportunities for Australia and our economy; however, it’s important that Australian creatives benefit from these opportunities too” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Jane Austen. Spike Lee. MrBeast. “Modern Family.” The Atlantic’s new AI Watchdog search tool lets you see which creative works tech companies may have used to train their generative-AI models: https://theatln.tc/vQSlfiyC

www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig... Question for Mr. Altman and @thr.com: Who are the excited rightsholders, precisely?

Who has the dirt on what Sam Altman is telling/promising agents and studios? www.reuters.com/technology/o...

Here’s part 1 of our four-part Better Offline case against generative AI. I walk you through how generative AI is sold through a complete misunderstanding of the concept of labor - and myth-building by companies like NVIDIA and OpenAI. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... Linktr.ee/betteroffline

Someone should probably inform the White House's "AI & Crypto Czar" that no one is forcing AI companies to train their models on Wikipedia

A welcome move by China. Hope it is noted and discussed at Mondiacult at the end of the month. @jenniferdavidson.bsky.social

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Jason with important clarity on the Meta lawsuit summary judgment.

Some analysis of the two big generative AI copyright cases in the US this week (Anthropic and Meta)

FSE cosigned the Manifesto for the Protection of Authentic Creation launched by SARTEC and other Quebec unions representing #creators, #performers, craftspeople and technicians in the #audiovisual and music industries. 🟥 Read more and sign: lartesthumain.com/en/

FSE co-signed open letter to EU Ministers of #Culture ahead of Council on 12-13 May. They have a prominent role to play on specific impact of #AI on European #CulturalDiversity & #ArtisticFreedom. federationscreenwriters.eu/open-letter-... #generativeAI #copyright #democracy

Our friends at Film Ireland have released a special series of podcasts from our World Conference of Screenwriters last year. You can listen back to the first day of panels and discussions here @iawg.bsky.social filmireland.net/category/pod...

FSE is part of a broad coalition of organisations in Europe’s creative and cultural sectors. Together we launch a campaign on the #AIAct. Keywords: Transparency. Consent. Remuneration. We call on EU policymakers to #StayTrueToTheAct. #AI #screenwriters #creators #copyright staytruetotheact.eu

Collecting reactions to proposals for the US to exempt AI training from copyright law: 1. Includes complete letter from Hollywood creatives deadline.com/2025/03/trum...

Every major UK newspaper - left, right, broadsheet, tabloid - is running a front page campaign against copyright carveouts for AI training. I can't remember the last time any political cause had such broad support, let alone one so anti-big tech and so economically consequential.

Interesting that Open AI says it can’t remove contested ©️ works NOT because it’s technically impossible but because they must preserve all training data as evidence in myriad other lawsuits. www.fastcompany.com/91265555/ope...

Mark Zuckerberg appears to have personally approved training Meta's genAI models on an entire "shadow library" of pirated books: www.wired.com/story/new-do...

Groceries for Writers is continuing for those affected by the fires. Please consider donating if you’re able.

Last month we responded to the Government's consultation on copyright and AI Now - as part of the Creative Rights in AI Coalition - we are urging all our members to write to their MP to safeguard creative rights in AI Use the special online tool here: creativerightsinai.eaction.org.uk/MP

As the public safety situation in the Los Angeles area continues to unfold, we are moderating a spreadsheet containing resources and aid efforts which you can access here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Burning question for Meta: How, exactly, are your AI bots trained on TV characters? "Me: What was the prompt that your creators used to make you? Liv: My creators based me on a fiercely loyal and self-assured mom — think Gloria Pritchett from Modern Family!"