This whole subject raises interesting and important legal and ethical
issues, but are there any direct implications at this time for
Wikipedia/Wikimedia projects?
Newyorkbrad/IBM
On Sunday, January 19, 2020, Ryan Merkley <rmerkley(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
I don't believe it implies that. As with many
things legal, the answer re:
derivatives is likely "it depends".
R.
On Sat, Jan 18, 2020, 10:30 PM Benjamin Ikuta <benjaminikuta(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Thanks for that.
Pardon me if I've missed something, but that seems to imply, but not
directly state, that AI training is a derivative work; could you clarify
that?
On Jan 18, 2020, at 2:58 PM, Ryan Merkley <rmerkley(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
[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-recognition-ai/
shared-images-in-facial-recognition-ai/
<
https://creativecommons.org/faq/#artificial-intelligence-and-cc-licenses
r.
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>> On Jan 18, 2020, at 2:14 PM, John Erling Blad <jeblad(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
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> 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-recognition.html
dirty-little-secret-millions-online-photos-scraped-n981921
>
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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