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1. Ars Technica (arstechnica@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 03:49:14 JST Ars Technica

   Music labels sue AI music generators for copyright infringement

   Suno and Udio could face damages of up to $150,000 per song allegedly infringed.

   https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/06/music-labels-sue-ai-music-generators-for-copyright-infringement/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

   • davidcorbett (davidcorbett@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 04:20:34 JST davidcorbett

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     @arstechnica crybabies most things are 60 to 90 similar of same items usage purpose so songs should be able to be 60% same lyrics and 60% same music and u can not touch them and only a little money for 80 % similar and little more payment per song n money u make if song is 90% same

   • SaftyKuma (saftykuma@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 04:52:31 JST SaftyKuma

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     @arstechnica

     I'm not a fan of the record labels, but they are in the right here. Hopefully this puts some LLM Bros right out of business. Of course, the LLM "startus" are backed by big tech's moneyed neofascist oligarchs so it's hard to see where this ends up.

   • Brian Dear (brianstorms@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 05:14:45 JST Brian Dear

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     History repeating itself.

     Why, I’m old enough to remember when the RIAA sued my then-employer, MP3•com, in 2000–twenty-four long years ago—for exactly the same thing. $67 billion lawsuit I think it was.

     Record labels won in the end. Vivendi Universal wound up owning what was left of MP3 after that debacle.

   • Daniel Marks (profdc9@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 05:39:15 JST Daniel Marks

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     @arstechnica So hard to know who root for here. It's like Alien vs. Predator, or curing syphilis with malaria.

   • Urzl (gooba42@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 07:04:06 JST Urzl

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     @arstechnica Why do music labels get more protection than any other rights holder from AI piracy?

     OpenAI, among others, openly told us it couldn't have existed at all if it had been required to get rights to the things from which it derived ChatGPT.

     I feel like this is pretty blatantly a case of some animals being more equal than others.

   • Brokar (brokar@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 21:30:04 JST Brokar

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     @arstechnica I always like the word "allegedly". There's no proof id did happen and you can make up fictional sums in damage you MIGHT POSSIBLY have had in the future. It's like praying for money but here unlike in religion praying actually works. Every time.