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Every single day we don’t have transparency, the value of copyright loses ground and the harms inflicted to creative industries grow. California has always been on the forefront of policies that can lead the way for America, and AB-412, The AI Copyright Transparency Act offers us the opportunity to lead by example as it empowers artists and creators to exercise their rights as copyright owners. Thousands of people across a multitude of creative industries have found the entirety of their works, both personal and professional, used to train GenAI datasets without anyone having acquired consent, or having offered them any kind of credit or compensation. This is unacceptable! Vast quantities of data are routinely and indiscriminately scraped from across the internet to train GenAI models. These works serve as the “data fuel” for these models, and yet there is no requirement for GenAI developers to provide the lawful owners of these materials with any way to know if their specific copyrighted materials are contained within a dataset or not. This is theft! Federal law provides copyright holders with a variety of exclusive rights over their works, including the right to reproduce, distribute and display copyrighted materials. Copyrights give artists the ability to make money from their creative efforts (whose ripple effects are felt throughout the larger economy), and they increase economic incentives for investment in creative output. GenAI developers are ignoring copyright statutes and they must not be rewarded for flouting copyright law. AB-412 will increase transparency with respect to the use of copyrighted materials to train GenAI models by requiring GenAI developers to provide copyright owners with information about how their materials have been used. AB-412 is literally the least the California Legislature can do to prevent GenAI developers from profiting off the copyrighted materials of uncredited and uncompensated artists and creators. Tell your legislators: We have the right to know how, where and when our works are used - we need the AI Copyright Transparency Act!

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