A letter sent to the White House Scientific and Technological Policy Office brings together signatures of more than 400 creative leaders requesting the protection of copyright rules in the United States, according to Variety magazine. Read the full document below.
The list of filmmakers, writers, actors and musicians includes names like Ben Stiller, Mark Ruffalo, Cynthia Erivo, Cate Blanchett, Cord Jefferson, Paul McCartney, Ron Howard and Taika Waititi.
The letter has been written in response to recent submissions made by Openai and Google arguing that the American law on copyright should allow training on AI using protected work without the need for the authorization of its authors.
“We firmly believe that the world leadership of US AI should not arrive at the expense of our essential creative industries,” said the text. “America has not become global cultural power by accident. Our success comes directly from our fundamental respect for copyright. ”
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Openai proposed that the United States “takes action to ensure that the copyright system will continue to support the Directorate of AI and the economic and national security of the United States”, in particular “working to prevent less innovative countries from imposing their legal regimes on American IA companies and slowing down the rate of progress”.
Google defended the “rules for balancing copyright such as fair use and text exceptions and exploration of data”, that the company declared that it was “essential to allow AI systems to learn with previous knowledge and data accessible to the public, unlocking scientific and social advances”.
The technology giant also claims that change does not have an impact on “significantly rights holders and would avoid negotiations often very unpredictable, unbalanced and long with data holders during the development of models or scientific experimentation”.
Recently, a similar discussion on changes in the rules of copyright in the United Kingdom has mobilized the country’s creative industry and the newspapers in an unprecedented campaign, as reported by the digital look.
Complete document
Hello friends and foreigners. As you may know, there was recently an Openai and Google recommendation for the current American administration which earns an alarming force to remove all legal protections and obstacles around the protections of the law on copyright for training in artificial intelligence. This rewriting of the law established in favor of “fair use”, required an initial response until 11:59 am from Saturday, we therefore sent an initial letter with the signatories that we had at that time. We now continue to accept the signatures for an amendment to our initial declaration. Do not hesitate to refer to anyone you think you are invested in the ethical maintenance of your intellectual property. You can add your name and all guilds or unions or description of yourself that you find appropriate, but do not change the letter itself. Thank you very much for publishing this on a Saturday evening!
Hollywood’s response to the government’s artificial intelligence action plan and the need to maintain copyright law.
We, members of the American entertainment industry – representing an intersection of directors of photography, directors, producers, actors, writers, studios, producers, musicians, composers, costume designers, sound designers
We firmly believe that the world leadership of the American AI should not arrive at the expense of our essential creative industries. The United States’s arts and entertainment industry supports more than 2.3 million American jobs with more than $ 229 billion in wages per year, while providing the basis of American democratic influence and soft power abroad. But the societies of AI ask to undermine this economic and cultural force weakening copyright protections for films, television series, works of art, texts, music and voices used to form IA models at the heart of multibilion business assessments.
Make no mistake: this problem goes far beyond the entertainment industry, because the right to train was on all copyright content on all American knowledge industries. When technological companies and would require unrestricted access to all data and information, they do not only threaten films, books and music, but the work of all writers, editors, photographers, scientists, architects, engineers, designers, doctors, software developers and all the other professionals who work with computers and generate intellectual property. These professions are at the heart of the way we discover, learn and share knowledge as a society and as a nation. This question does not only concern AI or individual economy and rights leadership, but on the continuous management of the United States in the creation and possession of precious intellectual property in all areas.
It is clear that Google (valued at 2 dollars) and Openai (worth more than $ 157 billion) argue for a special government exemption so that they can freely explore the creative industries and knowledge of the United States, despite their available income and funds. There is no reason to weaken or eliminate copyright protections that have helped the United States flourish. Not when AI companies can use our copyright protected equipment by simply doing what the law requires: negotiating appropriate authors with copyright – just like all other industries. Access to the creative catalog of film content, text, video and music in the United States is not a question of national security. They do not require a compulsory exemption from the government of the law on copyright in progress in the United States.
America has not become a global cultural power by accident. Our success comes directly from our fundamental respect for PI and Copyright which rewards creative risks from the Americans and talented workers in all states and territories. For almost 250 years, the American copyright has balanced the rights of the creator with the needs of the public, creating the most dynamic creative economy in the world. We recommend that the US action plan for AI maintains existing copyright structures to maintain the strength of creative industries and American knowledge, as well as American cultural influence abroad.
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