Four things to know about the RIAA AI lawsuit, a 🧵:
1) The legal claim is *not* that the AI-generated songs are infringing. The similarities, producer tags, etc cited in the complaints are only meant to prove the AI was trained on songs owned by the labels. It's the training that the labels say is infringement - the copying that happens behind-the-scenes, to teach an AI model the vocabulary of music, the meaning of "rockabilly" or the characteristics of "trap music." The model learns those unprotected ideas by analyzing a lot

The 5th Circuit gave #FairUseWeek a fitting climax on Friday by affirming a district court opinion tossing troll Keith Bell’s lawsuit and ordering him to pay attorneys’ fees for the public school he sued over a tweet. This is great news for so many reasons. 1/x First, it continues to build the dossier against Bell, whose disgraceful shakedown scheme has cost public schools and non-profits tens of thousands of dollars in needless settlements. As more and more courts see him for what he is, more victims will be emboldened to defy him.

Hi all! Thrilled to give a Twitter-ized version of the overview talk I sometimes give about the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Software Preservation. Thanks to @fletcherdurant for inviting me. Read the full Code here: arl.org/focus-areas/co…. 1/15 Software preservation is a really important part of digital preservation, and its value is only going to increase. Almost everything we make, now, is written in a language only computers running the right software can read. #prestc19 2/15