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Pres. Trump fires Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter less than 24 hours after she issued pre-publication report on AI training & fair use more favorable to copyright holders. Raises a cloud of uncertainty over Report.
Read more: Pres. Trump fires Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter less than 24 hours after she issued pre-publication report on AI training & fair use more favorable to copyright holders. Raises a cloud of uncertainty over Report.President Trump reportedly just fired the Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter, less than 24 hours after she made available a pre-publication version of the Report on AI training and Fair Use. It’s unclear, at the moment, the reason for the firing, but the timing is at least suggestive. The “pre-publication” status of the report might…
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Video Sen. Ted Cruz presiding over hearing with Sam Altman. Stresses importance of US maintaining lead over China in AI.
Read more: Video Sen. Ted Cruz presiding over hearing with Sam Altman. Stresses importance of US maintaining lead over China in AI.This week, Senator Ted Cruz, Senate Commerce Committee Chair, presided over a hearing with Sam Altman and other AI industry execs. Fascinating comments. Here’s Senator Cruz’s opening statement: Good morning. The Senate Committee on Commerce Science and Transportation is called to order welcome to our witnesses. Thank you for joining us this morning in the…
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Rep. Darrell Issa proposes Preventing Abuse of Digital Replicas Act (PADRA), as amendment to trademark law
Read more: Rep. Darrell Issa proposes Preventing Abuse of Digital Replicas Act (PADRA), as amendment to trademark lawRep. Darrell Issa just published a discussion draft of a bill that would amend the Lanham Act to include digital replicas within the scope of trademarks and to create a rebuttable presumption that the uanuthorized use of someone’s digital replica is likely to cause confusion. Although the details will need to be ironed out, I…
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Senators introduce NO FAKES bill to prohibit unauthorized AI deepfakes, or digital replicas
Read more: Senators introduce NO FAKES bill to prohibit unauthorized AI deepfakes, or digital replicasThe Nurture Originals, Foster Art, and Keep Entertainment Safe Act of 2024, known as the NO FAKES Act, was introduced in Congress. The bill is intended “to protect the voice and visual likenesses of creators and individuals from the proliferation of digital replicas created without their consent.” Nature of the Right – The bill provides individuals with a new federal…
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Senators propose COPIED Act – does it supplant the Copyright Act?
Read more: Senators propose COPIED Act – does it supplant the Copyright Act?Senators Cantwell, Blackburn, and Heinrich just introduced a bill cleverly titled the Content Origin Protection and Integrity from Edited and Deepfaked Media Act (COPIED ACT). As they summarize: The liability provision in this bill seems to make use and copying of content that includes the requisite content provenance information (contemplated by the bill), to train…
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Federal bill introduced (text): Future of AI Innovation Act
Read more: Federal bill introduced (text): Future of AI Innovation ActU.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Chair of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, and U.S. Senators Todd Young (R-Ind.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.), introduced the bipartisan Future of AI Innovation Act. From their webpage announcing the bill:
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List of AI bills before Congress
Read more: List of AI bills before CongressBelow is a list of proposed bills (including as draft discussion not yet introduced) in Congress that relate to AI. The bills are listed in reverse chronological order with links to the text of the bills. Highlights: Note: this list might not capture all bills affecting AI. It focuses on the major bills that expressly…
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Sam Altman asks Congress to regulate AI, warns of potential for “significant harm to the world,” job losses
Read more: Sam Altman asks Congress to regulate AI, warns of potential for “significant harm to the world,” job lossesSam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, creator of ChatGPT, testified before Congress. The tone he struck was surprising. Altman wanted Congress to regulate AI, warned of its dangers with the potential of causing “significant harm to the world,” and conceded that there will be job losses but was optimistic AI technology would also create new…