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Nautilus Productions @nautprod.bsky.social · 2d

Blackbeard Pillages the Northeast!
October 12, 1717: In the fall Blackbeard prowls the Delaware and Chesapeake bays in conjunction with two other pirate captains, Benjamin Hornigold and Stede Bonnet.

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Artists Against Copyright Infringement @ipcopyright.bsky.social · 13d

The tool makes it easy to spin short, polished videos from text prompts or images, complete with a social-media-style feed. But...unless rights holders affirmatively opt out, their characters may appear in Sora-generated clips.

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New Sora AI App Forces Hollywood to Opt Out or Get Played

I tested OpenAI's new Sora 2 video app. Within minutes I was generating branded cartoon clips. Hollywood's AI headache just got animated.

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Nautilus Productions @nautprod.bsky.social · 13d

Blackbeard Throws A Party!
October 1718: Blackbeard parties at Ocracoke Island, NC with a sizable cohort that includes Charles Vane and "Calico Jack" Rackham.

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Artists Against Copyright Infringement @ipcopyright.bsky.social · 25d

The project presents a problem for recording companies and music publishers, as much of the music remains under copyright and continues to be commercially exploited.

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Labels settle copyright lawsuit against Internet Archive over streaming of vintage vinyl records - Music Business Worldwide

The parties requested that Judge Maxine Chesney pause all case deadlines while they complete the settlement terms.

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Artists Against Copyright Infringement @ipcopyright.bsky.social · Sep 12

Encyclopaedia Britannica & Merriam-Webster accuse Perplexity in 55-page civil complaint of violating their copyrights both at the curation stage when it uses a software program called “PerplexityBot” to crawl & scrape their websites for Perplexity’s “answer engine”
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Encyclopaedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster claim copyright infringement by AI startup Perplexity

The reference book companies claim Perplexity's responses to queries often contain verbatim reproductions of entries and articles.

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Artists Against Copyright Infringement @ipcopyright.bsky.social · Sep 13

Downloading and storing pirated content is clearly not legal, even if it is to be used for a fair use purpose.

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Why 'Fair Use' Cannot Justify Piracy in AI Training Cases

Explore why 'fair use' doesn't excuse piracy in the landmark Anthropic case and its implications for the future of AI and copyright law.

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Artists Against Copyright Infringement @ipcopyright.bsky.social · 27d

“MiniMax operates Hailuo AI, a Chinese artificial intelligence image and video generating service that pirates and plunders Plaintiffs’ copyrighted works on a massive scale,” the companies said in the lawsuit, filed Tuesday.

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Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, NBCU Sue Chinese AI Company MiniMax, Alleging It ‘Pirates and Plunders’ Studios’ Copyrighted Works on ‘Massive Scale’

Disney, WBD and NBCUniversal filed a lawsuit against MiniMax, a Chinese AI company, alleging "willful and brazen" copyright infringement.

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Artists Against Copyright Infringement @ipcopyright.bsky.social · 26d

The “siege” they fear is a figment of their own imagination. Site blocking isn’t some theoretical concept where we are left to predict what might happen if deployed. It’s been tried and tested globally for over a decade and passed with flying colors.

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When Tech Giants Cry Wolf: A Flawed Case Against Judicial Site Blocking | Copyright Alliance

Two recent reports (here and here) commissioned by the internet infrastructure lobby paint a picture of an internet under siege from overzealous governments – particularly as it relates to laws allowi...

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Artists Against Copyright Infringement @ipcopyright.bsky.social · Sep 11

The tech companies are operating as imperialists, scouring foreign lands whose resources they can plunder. Brazenly. Without consent. Without attribution. Without redress.

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Tech companies are stealing our books, music and films for AI. It’s brazen theft and must be stopped | Anna Funder and Julia Powles

If we don’t refuse and resist, not just our culture but our democracy will be irrevocably diminished

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Artists Against Copyright Infringement @ipcopyright.bsky.social · Sep 10

AI-generated history videos with hundreds of thousands of views and many inaccuracies are drowning out fact-checked, expert-produced content.

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AI Is Coming for YouTube Creators

At least 15 million videos have been snatched by tech companies.

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Nautilus Productions @nautprod.bsky.social · Sep 9

Blackbeard's French Prize!
September 12, 1718: Blackbeard returns to North Carolina with the Rose Emelye, a French ship known as the "Sugar Ship" for it's cargo of sugar and cocoa, captured in Martinique.

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Artists Against Copyright Infringement @ipcopyright.bsky.social · Sep 5

The lawsuit accuses Midjourney of building its business around the mass theft of content. The company “brazenly dispenses Warner Bros. Discovery’s intellectual property” by letting subscribers produce images and videos of iconic copyrighted characters.

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Warner Bros. Discovery Sues AI Giant Midjourney for Copyright Infringement In Major Legal Battle

The lawsuit was filed as a growing contingent of Hollywood steps into the fight over generative artificial intelligence.

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Artists Against Copyright Infringement @ipcopyright.bsky.social · Aug 26

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic said in a court filing on Tuesday it has resolved a class action lawsuit from a group of U.S. authors who argued the company's AI training infringed their copyrights, marking the first settlement in the U.S.

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Nautilus Productions @nautprod.bsky.social · Sep 4

King George I has Enough of Piracy!
September 5, 1717: Having had enough of the scourge of piracy King George I issues a royal decree, the Act of Grace (aka Proclamation for Suppressing of Pirates)

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Artists Against Copyright Infringement @ipcopyright.bsky.social · Aug 26

This blog looks back on those orders and other key developments in AI and copyright cases over the past six months.

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Mid-Year Review: AI Copyright Case Developments in 2025 | Copyright Alliance

The first half of 2025 saw major developments in some of the dozens of ongoing copyright lawsuits against AI companies, as well as the filing of a few new high-profile cases. Two cases in particular,

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Artists Against Copyright Infringement @ipcopyright.bsky.social · Aug 24

They can’t handle or generate novelty, they become stymied when forced to operate with uncertainty or incomplete information, and they lack empathy and any real conception of understanding.

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AI companies are commiting mass theft and hiding behind the language of ‘training’

The proliferation of artificial intelligence has vast consequences for copyright law.

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Nautilus Productions @nautprod.bsky.social · Aug 22

Blackbeard Captures Two Prizes!
August 23, 1718: Blackbeard and his crew on the Adventure [II] spy two French merchant ships, one fully laden and the other in ballast, sailing Northward from the Caribbean island of Martinique.

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Whitebeam (Tara) 🏴‍☠️🦄💜🤡 doing it for Rhysie! @whitebeam1.bsky.social · Aug 13

I read that as capturing a scallop which is about right for our intrepid Stede

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Rick Allen @rallennautilus.bsky.social · Aug 19

This is a conservation success story in the works. The waters here are far cleaner than they used to be, and an increase in bait fish is now attracting sand tigers to Boston Harbor as a nursery area. Knotek says about 1-2% of the population is restored each year.

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It's not just great whites. Sand tiger sharks are rebounding in New England.

Researchers from New England Aquarium are tagging sand tiger sharks in Boston Harbor to better understand the species as its population slowly rebounds.

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Artists Against Copyright Infringement @ipcopyright.bsky.social · Aug 13

The epitome of this is the use of the Books3 dataset. Books3 is a collection of nearly 200,000 pirated books. Almost none of the books in there are with the permission of their authors or publishers.

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Is it Time to Block the Internet Archive?

In a bid to block AI bots, Reddit announced it’s also blocking the Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine. Should you follow suit?

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Artists Against Copyright Infringement @ipcopyright.bsky.social · Aug 15

The potential scope of works that Anthropic allegedly infringed numbers in the hundreds of thousands to millions & consists of works from thousands of copyright owners, both authors & publishers. Your house and your authors may each be part of the class.”

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Copyright and Piracy: Publishers Coordinate on the Anthropic Suit

In a fast-moving and potentially influential class action suit of AI developer Anthropic, the AAP supports publishers' preparation.

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Artists Against Copyright Infringement @ipcopyright.bsky.social · Aug 16

Judge Alsup has ordered Plaintiffs’ counsel to provide official class notice by first-class mail and e-mail. To accomplish this, we are collecting mailing addresses and e-mail contacts for as many authors and publishers as possible.

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Anthropic Authors’ Rights Class Action – Author Contact Page – Lieff Cabraser

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Artists Against Copyright Infringement @ipcopyright.bsky.social · Aug 17

The proposal gave "a free pass" to multinational tech companies, such as Google, Meta and OpenAI, to continue using unauthorised copyrighted material to train their AI models.

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Authors warn AI copyright exception a 'free pass' for Big Tech to steal work

The Productivity Commission's interim report on AI has triggered a fierce backlash from the literary community.

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Nautilus Productions @nautprod.bsky.social · Aug 13

Pirate Bonnet Heads For Carolina!
August 12, 1718: On this day in 1718, "Gentleman Pirate" Stede Bonnet's sloop-of-war flagship the Royal James and two other armed sloops, the Francis and the Fortune, captured a shallop in NC.

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Nautilus Productions @nautprod.bsky.social · Aug 9

Warrant Issued for Blackbeard's Arrest!
August 11, 1718: Governor William Keith of Pennsylvania issues a warrant for Blackbeard's arrest based on the belief Thache is trading with merchants in Philadelphia.

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