Ooooookaaaaaay, so remember when I said that I was going to do #FNF mod versions of popular songs?

Well, I kept delaying it due to the fact that my laptop keeps lagging horribly these days, and me having to work overtime more nowadays. Plus I've actually never developed or modded a full fledged game before, at all.

But I actually did the song - well, a modification of an existing remix of #Tarkus by Al Ferox (at least the Eruption part of it, anyway). With Boyfriend and Dave (FNFvs.D&B) vocals.

I'm not releasing it as a video mostly because of the way my laptop can be laggy while video editing (which is why most of my videos tend to have static images, but I've been doing visualizers so far), so I'm releasing it here exclusively on #Mastodon (sunny.garden).

#FairUse applies here as I did make an effort to make transformative modifications of the song.

As always, #PleaseBoost for it so that it doesn't get lost in the void forever!

@music

"Technology should only ever do exactly what we have explicitly given it our consent to do"

This blog post https://www.anildash.com//2025/05/27/2025-05-27-internet-of-consent/ by @anildash is just superb!

And the last sentence, a massively poignant call-to-action that won't leave people indifferent, specially, those who can't understand #ConsentMatters

"The [#CopyrightOffice] #AIreport applies the law of #fairuse to different kinds of #AItraining and usage, concluding that although outcomes might differ case by case, “making commercial use of vast troves of #copyrightedworks to produce expressive content that competes with them in existing markets, especially where this is accomplished through illegal access, goes beyond established fair use boundaries.”"

https://www.theverge.com/politics/666179/maga-elon-musk-sacks-copyright-office-perlmutter

Judge on Meta’s AI training: “I just don’t understand how that can be fair use” https://arstechni.ca/2jJYz #copyrightinfringement #AItraining #torrenting #copyright #leeching #fairuse #Policy #piracy #LLaMA #meta

"You have companies using #copyright-protected material to create a product that is capable of producing an infinite number of competing products," Chhabria told #Meta's attorneys. "You are dramatically changing, you might even say obliterating, the market for that person's work, & you're saying that you don't even have to pay a license to that person."

"I just don't understand how that can be #FairUse," Chhabria said.

Judge in #Meta case weighs key question for #AI #copyright lawsuits

A federal judge in SF will hear arguments on Thurs from Meta & a group of #authors in the 1st court hearing over a pivotal question in high-stakes copyright cases over #AItraining.

Judge Vince Chhabria will consider Meta's request for a pretrial ruling that it made "#FairUse" of books from writers including Junot Diaz & comedian Sarah Silverman to train its #LLaMa #LLM.

#law #tech #IntellectualProperty
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/judge-meta-case-weighs-key-question-ai-copyright-lawsuits-2025-05-01/

Training #AI Using ‘Pirated’ Content Can Be #FairUse, Law Professors Argue - https://torrentfreak.com/training-ai-using-pirated-content-can-be-fair-use-law-professors-argue-250402/ " if the goal is to create a new and 'transformative' tool. "

Companies in MURICA love #copyright and lobby against Creative Commons and fair use, unless it´s convenient for them, like #openai and the #Ghibli syle. I thought #FairUse had to do with education and non-profit goals. #IntellectualProperty

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/is-ai-art-stealing-from-artists

If I record myself reading a copyrighted book and share the recording with some friends (for free), is that copyright infringement?

If so, can I claim fair use by, idk, dressing up in a funny outfit or something and turning the reading into a performance art piece, which I then record and share?

Is it copyright infringement to extract the audio from said recording of such a performance art piece and share that? There must be a legal way to do this...

Sam Altman asks #Trump to grant #OpenAI blanket permissions to steal everyone's copyrighted works so he can train his #AI. He raises the threat of China AI dominance as the bogeyman.
https://futurism.com/openai-over-copyrighted-work
#copyright #FairUse #AIhype #SamAltman

Big Tech wants AI fair use… for them
OpenAI and Google are pushing the US to let them train AI on copyrighted material—framing it as a national security issue. Meanwhile, lawsuits mount. Who benefits from redefining 'fair use'? #AI #Copyright #FairUse

https://www.theverge.com/news/630079/openai-google-copyright-fair-use-exception

Fair Use is about genuinely societal benefits, like quoting a paper for further research or parodying a song or celebrity. Strangely, Google and OpenAI seem to think that mere copying to enhance their profit margins should be on the same level.
#AI #copyright #fairuse
https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/03/google-agrees-with-openai-that-copyright-has-no-place-in-ai-development/

"#OpenAI is hoping that Trump's AI Action Plan, due out this July, will settle copyright debates by declaring AI training fair use—paving the way for AI companies' unfettered access to training data that OpenAI claims is critical to defeat China in the AI race.
Currently, courts are mulling whether AI training is #fairuse, as rights holders say that AI models trained on creative works threaten to replace them in markets and water down humanity's creative output overall."
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/03/openai-urges-trump-either-settle-ai-copyright-debate-or-lose-ai-race-to-china/

I’m running a workshop about AI and stuff for some high schoolers and when we went on the usual conversation about cheating or not I came up with this.

Only the workers' movement can fight automation. Copyright law was made for capitalists and not for workers. Artists have to understand that, first and foremost, they are workers like the rest of human beings who need to work in order to survive. They don't live on a heavenly altar, above worldly concerns.

"The launch of ChatGPT and other deep learning quickly led to a flurry of lawsuits against model developers. Legal theories vary, but most are rooted in copyright: plaintiffs argue that use of their works to train the models was infringement; developers counter that their training is fair use. Meanwhile developers are making as many licensing deals as possible to stave off future litigation, and it’s a sound bet that the existing litigation is an elaborate scramble for leverage in settlement negotiations.

These cases can end one of three ways: rightsholders win, everybody settles, or developers win. As we’ve noted before, we think the developers have the better argument. But that’s not the only reason they should win these cases: while creators have a legitimate gripe, expanding copyright won’t protect jobs from automation. A win for rightsholders or even a settlement could also lead to significant harm, especially if it undermines fair use protections for research uses or artistic protections for creators. In this post and a follow-up, we’ll explain why. "

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/copyright-and-ai-cases-and-consequences

Meta im Fokus: Vorwürfe wegen Nutzung von Raubkopien zum Training von KI-Modellen
Meta steht erneut im Zentrum einer Kontroverse um künstliche Intelligenz. Der Vorwurf: Das Unternehmen soll piratisierte Inhalte aus Torrents verwendet haben, um sein
https://www.apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/meta-im-fokus-vorwuerfe-wegen-nutzung-von-raubkopien-zum-training-von-ki-modellen/
#KI #News #AppleIntelligence #FairUse #KI #KIKontroversen #KITraining #LibGen #Llama #MarkZuckerberg #Meta #Urheberrecht