Coalition4Creativity
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Coalition for Creativity embodies a new approach to European copyright, supported by a wide-ranging group of stakeholders. [email protected]
Joined May 2013
2/ Read C4C’s recent article, which sets out why the EC's focus on creating a “level playing field” in the #DigitalNetworksAct could turn into regulatory capture and a threat to the Open Internet 👉 https://t.co/mKKO76uREd
#TelecomPolicy #OpenInternet #NetworkFees
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In Brussels, where policy language often wraps complexity in neutrality, few phrases are more deceptively comforting than “level playing field.” It evokes fairness, balance, an equal start.
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1/ C4C co-signed this important joint effort to protect the #OpenInternet & take a firm stand against (concealed) #NetworkFees creeping into the EC’s upcoming #DigitalNetworksAct proposal 👉 https://t.co/YK4s9pGF2Y
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🤖 Europe’s AI future is at risk! MEP Voss’ draft Report on #Copyright & #GenerativeAI is fundamentally flawed. 🚨 Europe must choose: lead the AI revolution or become its casualty. 📅 15 July (16:00-18:30 CEST): JURI Committee debate 🔗 C4C’s analysis: https://t.co/OCMtMZoR8u
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⚠️ The #DigitalNetworksAct risks tilting the "level playing field" in EU digital policy. Regulatory capture. Paid prioritisation. Threats to #NetNeutrality. C4C says: No to tolls on digital expression. Yes to open, fair internet access. 🧵 https://t.co/YRyO5o2Vn2
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🎬 AI flips the script: #TheBrutalist used @respeecher to perfect Hungarian 🇭🇺 dialogues. Yet, impeding AI's ability to learn from local content could harm the authenticity & cultural richness the EU seeks to preserve. 🔗 A brutal truth on #TrainingData: https://t.co/UPAnbxMgm3
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2/ Check out C4C's @techpolicypress article for a more detailed overview of our concerns on how the proposed Measure 2.9 could result in a pre-emptive output filter ➡️ https://t.co/dThH3X8l7X
#AIAct #CoP #copyright
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Policymakers should explicitly reject pre-emptive copyright output filters of AI-generated outputs, argues Caroline De Cock.
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1/ At today's EU AI Code of Practice copyright plenary meeting, C4C cautioned against: 🔍 Impractical transparency demands 🚫 Opt-out overreach 🎯 Entertainment-only focus ⚠️ Censorship output filters 🔗 Summary of our intervention: https://t.co/ENf1H4CsfZ
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📢 C4C’s response to Ireland’s #AI & #Copyright Consultation:⚖️ Balance copyright with innovation 🔍 Refine opt-out tools 🌍 Avoid a “data winter” 🚫 No extra sui generis rights 📊 Ensure fair data access for all developers https://t.co/MUU1kBs1Af
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The Coalition for Creativity (C4C) recently submitted its comments to the Irish Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment on the evolving relationship between generative AI, copyright, and...
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When will this madness end?
From @RollingStone: "Major record labels have sued the online library Internet Archive over thousands of old recordings, raising the question: Who owns the past?" ⤵️
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Most importantly, this is the biggest evidence so far that the DSM does indeed cover AI training, something that most of us have argued from the start. It will be interesting to see if this is appealed, and if so, if it eventually makes it to the CJEU.
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Big news courtesy of @thebruess, LAION has successfully defended a copyright infringement challenge in a German court. This is the first European case testing the TDM exceptions in the DSM Directive.
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#Copyright lovers, today the District Court of Hamburg ruled on the much-awaited Robert Kneschke vs. LAION case. In short: Kneschke lost, the Court found that LAION could rely on the exception of...
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@Big_Worker Libraries don't cut into our sales, libraries are our sales! They buy more books and more copies than anyone.
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Take action: Sign the open letter to publishers, asking them to restore access to the 500,000+ books removed from our library ⤵️
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Let Readers Read: An Open Letter to the Publishers in Hachette v. Internet Archive:
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🚨 The recent decision of publishers to remove books from the @internetarchive is an outrage against #openknowledge. ✊🏾 We stand with them and ask you to sign their petition too:
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The California Freedom to Read Act of 2024 (AB1825) would prohibit book bans in California’s public libraries. The State Assembly has already passed it—now the Senate can send it to the Governor to become law. https://t.co/YrtcsFKR7o
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Books bans across the country threaten our fundamental freedom to read.
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📖✨Our new release: #FakeYou - An Activist's Guide to Defeating Disinformation - shows how today’s #FakeNews is just that same age-old lie and propaganda going by a different name and provides solutions. 📢⬇️ Free Download! Please share by all means :) https://t.co/kQh8rqeUFz
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#FakeYou, a Guide to Defeating Disinformation - Don’t blame the people; don’t blame the internet. Blame the power.
📚✨ We release #FakeYou - An Activist's Guide to Defeating Disinformation Don't blame the people; don't blame the Internet; blame the power. ✍️ Simona Levi et al. ⬇️ Free download. Please, share by all means :) 1/ 🧵👇 https://t.co/kQh8rqeUFz
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Must read thread
Here's a weird consequence of our shift from capitalism (where riches come from profits) to feudalism (where riches come from rents): increasingly, your rights to your property (physical stuff you own) are trumped by corporations' metaphorical "intellectual property" claims. 1/
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We are less than 600 signatures away from getting 4⃣0⃣,0⃣0⃣0⃣ people to tell the publishers to restore access to the books they removed from our lending library. Please sign if you haven't already & share with your friends & colleagues ➡️ https://t.co/wnBnSDlTUQ
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