[My comments are my own, and don’t reflect or suggest any official position from WMF]
The NBC story linked below come out about a year ago. Around the same time, when I was CEO at Creative Commons, we published a statement and updated FAQs that attempted to respond to questions being asked about permitted uses and attribution related to the licenses.
CC’s statement (March 2019) is here: https://creativecommons.org/2019/03/13/statement-on-shared-images-in-facial-... https://creativecommons.org/2019/03/13/statement-on-shared-images-in-facial-recognition-ai/ The FAQs are here: https://creativecommons.org/faq/#artificial-intelligence-and-cc-licenses https://creativecommons.org/faq/#artificial-intelligence-and-cc-licenses
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On Jan 18, 2020, at 2:14 PM, John Erling Blad jeblad@gmail.com wrote:
There are several reports of face recognition going mainstream, often in less than optimum circumstances, and often violating copyright and licenses
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/18/technology/clearview-privacy-facial-recog... https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/facial-recognition-s-dirty-little-secr... https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2019/01/diversity-in-faces/
In my opinion building a model for face recognition is a derived work, and as such must credit the photographers. That pose a real problem when the photographers counts in the millions and billions. Even a 1px fine print would be troublesome!
What is the official stance on this? Is it a copyright infringement or not, does the license(s) cover the case or not?
John Erling Blad /jeblad
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