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TrevBaylis @trevbaylis.bsky.social · Mar 13

Exceptionally joyful this week. US Copyright Office confirming my registration is entirely valid & I am indeed a joint author of Iron Sky along with those others listed has been a vindication for me to continue to stand up for the rights of myself & others in the face of disparagement & humiliation.

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TrevBaylis @trevbaylis.bsky.social · 13h

Tomato or not tomato. That is the question.

TrevBaylis @trevbaylis.bsky.social · 13h

A Danish for desert?

TrevBaylis @trevbaylis.bsky.social · 13h

Ham let[tuce] sandwich?

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TrevBaylis @trevbaylis.bsky.social · 1d

Again. Conflating TDM with Machine Learning is a false equivalence and a red herring argument to get people to focus on "opt-out" of Machine Learning. There is no such things as having to opt out of Machine Learning. The downloading of billions of works and storing them is just © infringment.

TrevBaylis @trevbaylis.bsky.social · 1d

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Copyright Exceptions and Fair use Defences for AI Training Done for 'Research' and 'Learning', or the Inescapable Licensing Horizon

<p><span>The training of Artificial Intelligence (AI) models relies on extensive amounts of ‘data’, often sourced from content protected by copyright, related a

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TrevBaylis @trevbaylis.bsky.social · 1d

TDM is NOT Machine Learning. It's a red herring argument to conflate the two as if article 4 of DSM©Drctve has an exception for Machine Learning.
TDM = Research. Machine Learning = replacing humans with automation. There is no © exception for replacing humans. There's no © in Outputs either.

TrevBaylis @trevbaylis.bsky.social · 2d

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Weekend Editor @weekend-editor.bsky.social · May 26

If your business cannot prosper without breaking the law, then it is not a business. It is organized crime.

Like those dependent on slavery, child labor, or wage theft, it should go out of business as soon as possible.

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TrevBaylis @trevbaylis.bsky.social · 3d

Creators don't need lawyers. They need to better understand copyright law and enforce their rights. For instance,
Sub-licensing a non-exclusive right is not actually possible. It's an absurdity because Platforms don't own any © to sub-license. It's just copyright infringement.

TrevBaylis @trevbaylis.bsky.social · 3d

ToS are not valid if they try to expropriate exclusive rights. ToS are contract law not copyright law.

TrevBaylis @trevbaylis.bsky.social · 3d

Copyright is actually part of human rights laws. It's basic common decency to respect property rights. Corporate ownership of copyright is restricted in most of the world. In the EU employees maintain © ownership even in employment relationships.
fra.europa.eu/en/eu-charte...

Article 17 - Right to property

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TrevBaylis @trevbaylis.bsky.social · 4d

Iron Sky 3D artists cannot be deprived of their intellectual property.
fra.europa.eu/en/eu-charte...

TrevBaylis @trevbaylis.bsky.social · 5d

There were numerous terms as AIgen users were looking for something to call themselves like "prompt engineer" or "synthographer". But as AIgen took off, there were media reports about how it was being used for deep fakes etc. "wankographer" was a term I coined a few years back. Clanker works too.

TrevBaylis @trevbaylis.bsky.social · 5d

AI firms are NOT right about copyright. They are taking ordinary people's works for free to enrich themselves with which is genuinely the worst kind of Mega corporation behavior and completely indefensible. So, again, be serious.

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TrevBaylis @trevbaylis.bsky.social · 5d

"pro-copyright arguments play right into mega-corporation's hands"

AI firms are mega-corporations. Be serious.

TrevBaylis @trevbaylis.bsky.social · 6d

I think you are completely ignorant of the actual case at issue and you are unlikely to have even read it properly.

A robot scanning a book and saving a copy of that book to it's hard drive is NOT fair use and you are just a moron. Seriously. You are a moron. Sci fi robots are human actors.

TrevBaylis @trevbaylis.bsky.social · 7d

To be clear, a human reads, a robot "scans and makes a copy saved to a hard disc".

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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 7d

OpenAI claims companies must opt-out of having their copyrighted characters & content appear in Sora

Legal experts say studios have grounds to sue:

“They’re setting up this false bargain where they can do this unless you opt out. And if you don’t, it’s your fault. That’s not the way the law works"

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TrevBaylis @trevbaylis.bsky.social · 7d

Judge Alsup is wrong though because he equates a "robot reading a book" with a child reading a book. A robot cannot actually gain knowledge of what it is reading and "has no human rights" such as "free speech" which is what "fair use" is derived from.

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TrevBaylis @trevbaylis.bsky.social · 8d

There's no such thing as maximalist copyright arguments because fair practice exists as and exception and all works become public domain.
Trademarks don't expire if they are being used.
The copyright owners argument is "get a license". That's all.

TrevBaylis @trevbaylis.bsky.social · 10d

You really are a fool.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

US judge preliminarily approves $1.5 billion Anthropic copyright settlement

A federal judge in California on Thursday preliminarily approved a landmark $1.5 billion settlement of a copyright class action brought by a group of authors against artificial intelligence company Anthropic, according to the authors' representatives.

www.reuters.com

TrevBaylis @trevbaylis.bsky.social · 10d

I own the © to this video. But according to Valve there is a ruling in Finland that says unemployed 3D animators can't be authors of such videos because it's not possible for animators such as myself to have © in the work they create! Valve lack common sense.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlsk...

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YouTube video by Trevor Baylis

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TrevBaylis @trevbaylis.bsky.social · 10d

There is no such thing as copyright maximalist so you are wrong. Copyright ALWAYS expires and there are fair practice exceptions to copyright. So once again -
There is no such thing as copyright maximalist so you are wrong.

TrevBaylis @trevbaylis.bsky.social · 10d

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Large-scale online pirates to face up to 10 years’ jail under ministers’ proposals

Consultation calls for maximum sentence to be vastly increased so penalties for online offences tally with those for copyright infringement of physical goods