3 Count: Instability AI

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1: Artists Take New Shot at Stability, Midjourney in Updated Copyright Lawsuit

First off today, Blake Brittain at Reuters reports that a group of artists have filed an amended complaint in their case against Stability AI and other visual AI companies in a bid to reverse an earlier dismissal of parts of their lawsuit.

Previously, the judge in the case tossed a portion of it that dealt with whether the output of these AI systems infringed their copyright, but left intact the core part about the AI systems being illegally trained on their work.

Still, the artists used the opportunity to refile the claim, adding seven artists to the case and providing additional details about their claims dealing with the AI systems’ output. They also added a new claim saying that the systems violate their rights under trademark law by promoting the names of some 4,700 artists and advertising them as prompts for generating results.

2: Parliamentary Head Calls for Digital Copyright Law for Web Payments

Next up today, Haberin Devamı at The Hürriyet Daily News reports that the digital media commission of the Turkish Parliament has advocated for the implementation of a new digital copyright law that would see search engines, such as Google, pay for accessing news media content.

According to supporters of the bill, the proposed law was inspired by similar legislation in the EU, Australia and elsewhere. The law would require search engines to pay for the right to access and search news media content.

The move comes shortly after Canada reached a similar deal with Google to compel the company to pay for access to Canadian news outlets. Both in Canada and Türkiye, they are hoping that this will help bolster local media, which has been struggling to find ways to become sustainable online.

3: Copyright: Canadian Publishing Calls Out Ottawa’s Inaction

Finally today, Porter Anderson at Publishing Perspectives reports that, in Canada, a coalition of publishing organizations have called for two key minsters and the Canadian government at large to ensure remuneration for content creators that lost money on the 2012 Copyright Modernization Act.

The act expanded copyright exemptions in the country, in particular when dealing with the education sector. According to various groups, these exemptions have cost rightsholders CA$200 million ($147 million) in revenue.

The move follows another group of associations and authors that made a similar demand of the government in August. However, the government recently shelved a potential review of the copyright act that was supposed to find appropriate remuneration for Canadian creators.

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