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Intellectual property law
fromFortune
2 days ago

The CEO of Patreon blasts AI companies for the 'bogus excuse' they're using to not pay artists | Fortune

AI companies exploit fair use doctrine to train on creator content without payment while simultaneously paying major corporations like Disney for licensing deals, creating a hypocritical double standard.
Television
fromPCMag UK
3 weeks ago

Sick of Commercials? You Can Still Skip YouTube Ads (if You Try Hard Enough)

YouTube ads are largely unavoidable, but skipping after five seconds or reporting repetitive ads provides some relief, though watching ten seconds ensures creators receive compensation.
Artificial intelligence
fromNOEMA
1 month ago

The AI-Powered Web Is Eating Itself | NOEMA

AI-generated search overviews replace creators' content in results, reducing traffic, revenue and community engagement and shrinking the living web into disembodied, sterile answers.
Artificial intelligence
fromFortune
1 month ago

I'm the Napster CEO and I agree with Pinterest: the Napster phase of AI needs to end | Fortune

Generative AI must stop scraping creators' work without fair compensation and adopt models that respect creators' rights, mirroring Napster's evolution toward licensed distribution.
fromDigiday
2 months ago

Future of TV Briefing: Brands are spending more to advertise creators' content, making usage rights a focal point

Of the $43.9 billion that advertisers in the U.S. are expected to spend on creator marketing in 2026, most of that money - 55% - will go towards ads amplifying the creators' content, not to the actual creation and posting of content by the creators themselves. And that spend is only increasing as creator content becomes a more popular choice for ad creative and paid amplification provides brands with the analytics to be able to more effectively gauge the impact of creators' content.
Marketing
Startup companies
fromnj
5 months ago

This former Twitter exec turned his layoff into a $2.75M social media empire | Calavia-Robertson

A Black, queer entrepreneur founded Spill to create a culture-focused social platform that centers and fairly compensates underrepresented creators.
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