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Join us for “Disruption: Creator Edition” — An Event Exploring Generative AI’s Impact on Creators
by Creative Commons Events postJoin us on 14 June at ‘Disruption: Creator Edition’ as we explore the profound influence of generative AI on creativity across multiple industries. CC has long focused on the ways that artificial intelligence (AI) can build on, contribute to, and exploit the commons and impact sharing of knowledge and creativity. The rapid rise of generative…
Everything might be OK! Warhol v. Goldsmith
by Kat Walsh, Stephen Wolfson Copyright postThe United States Supreme Court released its opinion today in Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith. While it’s hard to predict the full ramifications of this decision at this point, our initial opinion is that this decision is not ideal, but also not the death knell for transformative fair use that many feared it could have…
Elevating Emerging Audiences: Share Your Experience
by Catherine Stihler, Naily Nevarez Better Internet postCalling all AI developers, NFT creators, and entrepreneurs As our world faces increasingly complex and interconnected challenges, it becomes clear that innovation and collaboration are essential to finding viable solutions. Creative Commons is proud of the thousands who make our global community. And this year, we’re expanding. We’re endeavoring to connect with groups who we’ve…
State of the Commons 2022
pageOur Mission Creative Commons is an international nonprofit organization that empowers people to grow and sustain the thriving commons of shared knowledge and culture that we need to address the world’s most pressing challenges and create a brighter future for all. Together with our global community and multiple partners, we build capacity and infrastructure, we…
CC’s #BetterSharing Collection | April: The More We Share, The More We Have
by Ony Anukem About CC, Open Creativity postAs part of our #20CC anniversary, last year we joined forces with Fine Acts to spark a global dialogue on what better sharing looks like in action. Our #BetterSharing collection of illustrations was the result — we gathered insights from 12 prominent open advocates around the world and tasked 12 renowned artists who embrace openness…
The Complex World of Style, Copyright, and Generative AI
by Stephen Wolfson Better Internet, Licenses & Tools, Open Creativity, Technology postIn my previous posts on generative AI, I discussed fair use and AI training data, copyright over AI outputs, and a recent U.S. Copyright Office decision on registration for a work produced by generative AI. In the next posts in our series, I will look at claims (exemplified in a recent case against Stable Diffusion…
Zarya of the Dawn: US Copyright Office Affirms Limits on Copyright of AI Outputs
by Stephen Wolfson Better Internet, Copyright, Licenses & Tools, Open Creativity, Technology postIn a recent post, we explained why, absent significant and direct human creative input, generative AI outputs should not qualify for copyright protection. We noted that exactly what constitutes enough human input is not entirely clear; while a simple text prompt shouldn’t be enough, other areas will present more complex questions. Just this week, the…
This Is Not a Bicycle: Human Creativity and Generative AI
by Stephen Wolfson Better Internet, Licenses & Tools, Open Creativity, Technology post“Generative AI” has been the subject of much online conversation over the past few months. “Generative AI” refers to artificial intelligence (AI) models that can create different kinds of content by following user input and instructions. These models are trained on massive datasets of content — images, audio, text — that is harvested from the…
Fair Use: Training Generative AI
by Stephen Wolfson Better Internet, Copyright, Licenses & Tools, Open Creativity, Technology postWhile generative AI as a tool for artistic expression isn’t truly new — AI has been used to create art since at least the 1970s and the art auction house Christie’s sold its first piece of AI artwork in 2018 — the past year launched this exciting and disruptive technology into public awareness. With incredible…
Aparta la fecha: la Cumbre Global de Creative Commons 2023 llegará a la Ciudad de México
by Creative Commons Events post[Read this post in English >] La Cumbre Global de Creative Commons volverá a ser un evento presencial este 2023, y esta vez se llevará a cabo en una de las ciudades más imponentes y llenas de cultura del mundo: ¡la Ciudad de México! Del 3 al 6 de octubre de 2023, nos reuniremos en…