New blog post "License update: AI derivation prohibited on all my art, lore, stories, and comics."→ https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1178/license-update-ai-derivation-prohibited-on-all-my-art-lore-stories-and-comics
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@cwebber @dalias @poleguy @davidrevoy
IANAL and I haven't had the privilege of working at CC (merely being a Fellow) but I have seen a lot of hand-wringing on mailing lists and in blog posts.
Ultimately, however we might wish it otherwise, the consensus seems to be that if governments consider training data not to subject to copyright considerations, then neither do derivative licenses apply.
Again, I'm a mere observer. I may be wrong.
@dajb @cwebber @dalias @davidrevoy
I agree, that's what's happening!
Generally speaking: We are the people. The government is us.
The government is not "they." It's 'we.' If we don't accept this madness, we should not blame it on the government, or 'them' and roll over in a ditch, but we should take back control from the tech lobbyists and make the government match the will of the people.
How to do it... not so simple.
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@davidrevoy @skaphle I didn't know that they didn't work. Ugh. So much for Cara's artist socmed website being all into Glaze.
@Verati404 @skaphle Oh yes, Cara and in august three full AI scrapping of their database of 12 Millions of artworks... Just another proof the protection and ambition of this social media were also not up to the challenge: https://www.forbes.com/sites/robsalkowitz/2026/08/23/artists-built-a-site-to-escape-ai-scrapers-are-coming-for-it-anyway/
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New blog post "License update: AI derivation prohibited on all my art, lore, stories, and comics."
→ https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1178/license-update-ai-derivation-prohibited-on-all-my-art-lore-stories-and-comics@davidrevoy The absolute lack of any sort of self-awareness by the person who thought it'd be a good idea to AI-slop up your Avian Intelligence comics. what *entirely* the hell
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@Quantillion @davidrevoy that's even worse, astoundingly enough; they were use ng the AI as a tool, so the data set and suppositions were loaded into the model, and then the company claimed their AI found the solution
For this, I am seeing people reply with 'you need your own license', possibly that could be created with a coalition of like-minded artists
@draNgNon @davidrevoy
It needs to be global, enforced by national/EU govt legislation & enforcement, or it will become a jungle of myriad legal actions with small coalitions facing multinational IP thieves. -
New blog post "License update: AI derivation prohibited on all my art, lore, stories, and comics."
→ https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1178/license-update-ai-derivation-prohibited-on-all-my-art-lore-stories-and-comics@davidrevoy Have you been tracking this?
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@downey Hey, yes, pretty closely. It sounds really like CC is trying to facilitate the training of Wikipedia or big CC archive; and sort of only work with these type of big actors, owners of big catalog of content, and the entreprise who desire to train on that. With a clear bias to get subsidies from AI company and help them to train (my opinion).
But the artist of the web, the content creator? They know money doesn't come from them... Our request or needs to protect are simply ignored.
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@downey Hey, yes, pretty closely. It sounds really like CC is trying to facilitate the training of Wikipedia or big CC archive; and sort of only work with these type of big actors, owners of big catalog of content, and the entreprise who desire to train on that. With a clear bias to get subsidies from AI company and help them to train (my opinion).
But the artist of the web, the content creator? They know money doesn't come from them... Our request or needs to protect are simply ignored.
@downey Anyway, in a world where you can't even protect a content with classic
Copyright anymore, hoping that Creative Commons could do something is naïve anyway. -
@downey Anyway, in a world where you can't even protect a content with classic
Copyright anymore, hoping that Creative Commons could do something is naïve anyway.@davidrevoy Sadly those who would do harm aren't really deterred by IP law....
The toolkit is sparse.
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Please have a proper lawyer with copyright/licensing experience look at your idea of how to license your comics in the future.
I am pretty sure you cannot legally use a "CC-something" with an additional "no AI" clause, because then the folks behind the CC licensing might send you a cease and desist letter, since they don't approve of a CC-but-no-AI-use license just yet.
You will probably have to come up with an entire license text of your own, and call it something like the David-Revoy-no-AI-License.
If there are people who can send you a cease and desist for modifying a license about modifying your work and preventing you from sending cease and desists, there is something definitely wrong there. It's fine to give people legal advice that their modification can be rules lawyered, but threatening them as if the Creative Commons organization owns the Creative Commons license really makes me glad to give CC the middle finger and tell everyone I know never to trust anything their license of hypocrisy says.
In other words, you shouldn't be able to copyright "copyright!" -
@downey Hey, yes, pretty closely. It sounds really like CC is trying to facilitate the training of Wikipedia or big CC archive; and sort of only work with these type of big actors, owners of big catalog of content, and the entreprise who desire to train on that. With a clear bias to get subsidies from AI company and help them to train (my opinion).
But the artist of the web, the content creator? They know money doesn't come from them... Our request or needs to protect are simply ignored.
Many want to continue sharing their collections while ensuring that AI developers use them responsibly by respecting attribution, ensuring transparency, and meeting other safeguards aligned with their
Many want to continue sharing their collections while ensuring that AI developers use them
Ensuring that AI developers use them
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@davidrevoy I'm 100% with you on this. All power to you! I hope things will get better for you.
For my own software I had a clause "You are not allowed to use this software to train your LLM" until Guillem Jover (dpkg) pointed out that this would make my software non-free in the eyes of the Debian Free Software Guidelines and other definitions of free software (use for any endeavor).
It's a pity that the principles on which free software was founded decades ago can now be used against it.
@josch @davidrevoy I have seen a README which contained a paragraph like:
"It is the opinion of the author of this software, that the output of any LLM trained on this software, is a modified copy of this program (as opposed to part of an unmodified "aggregate") as per §5 of the GPL-3¹, and must be licensed appropriately, or will infringe its copyright. But also similarly for all the LLM's other training inputs."
And that should still be DFSG-free
¹ Or whatever license/§ is appropriate
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@josch @davidrevoy I have seen a README which contained a paragraph like:
"It is the opinion of the author of this software, that the output of any LLM trained on this software, is a modified copy of this program (as opposed to part of an unmodified "aggregate") as per §5 of the GPL-3¹, and must be licensed appropriately, or will infringe its copyright. But also similarly for all the LLM's other training inputs."
And that should still be DFSG-free
¹ Or whatever license/§ is appropriate
@aspragg Yes, writing it like that would not make it non-free as far as I understand copyright law. I'd still not add such a paragraph (even though i agree with it) because in the end it will not matter what my opinion is but what some court's judgement on the topic is.
I think that using copyright for free software (what many call "copyleft") is just an interesting "hack" and if necessary copyright law will be changed to benefit those in power as it always has been done sadly.
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@draNgNon @davidrevoy
It needs to be global, enforced by national/EU govt legislation & enforcement, or it will become a jungle of myriad legal actions with small coalitions facing multinational IP thieves.@Quantillion is that not what is happening with copyright law right now? and is, part of the underlying problem here.
I am old enough to remember copyrights being 28 years, renewable exactly once, pretty much around the world, or at least that was my understanding of it, before the US decided to extending to nigh forever for Disney's sake
anyhow, we definitely do not need every last person with their own license, like others are suggesting, that is all I meant.
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New blog post "License update: AI derivation prohibited on all my art, lore, stories, and comics."
→ https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1178/license-update-ai-derivation-prohibited-on-all-my-art-lore-stories-and-comics@davidrevoy
Your comics are amazing and I love them. Sad to see them (ab)used like that. The current situation is hard.
But on the other hand, your art and art of a few more artists together with the current situation persuaded me to find an artist in myself. -
New blog post "License update: AI derivation prohibited on all my art, lore, stories, and comics."
→ https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1178/license-update-ai-derivation-prohibited-on-all-my-art-lore-stories-and-comics@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org You're server is down and unresponsive
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@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org You're server is down and unresponsive
@img Thank you, yes, I saw in the log; something happened to my hosting for 20 min, but it was recovered after that. Thank you for reporting it!
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@img Thank you, yes, I saw in the log; something happened to my hosting for 20 min, but it was recovered after that. Thank you for reporting it!
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Evening young man, the problem persist in my end as the connection still times out. -
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Evening young man, the problem persist in my end as the connection still times out.@img Oh no. So it might be regional, or something with the CDN. Can you give me (very approx, and can be in DM) the region of the world where your internet service provider connects? I'll try to reset/refresh this specific part of the CDN. It might be stuck in a loop. THank you for the feedback!
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