"Last week, along with the launch of OpenAI's latest hyper-realistic AI video model, Sora 2, the Wall Street Journal reported that the tech company intended to require copyright holders to opt-out if they don't want their creations to appear in the Sora app. The lawyers we spoke to compared it to a burglar saying he had the right to steal everything in your house because you haven't explicitly told him to stop."
""They've essentially admitted that there's at least a live issue here as to whether creators or owners of copyrights will be able to enforce their rights," Ray Seilie, an attorney with KHIKS told IndieWire. "They're saying if you own a copyright and you don't want that copyright to be used in our training data, you have to tell us. And by implication, you're saying they have some rights here. We need some level of permission. But then they don't go all the way and ask for a license. You tell us if you're going to go after us. And that's just not the way that any kind of right works.""
""It's the equivalent of a begging for forgiveness type of thing. Because I think we all know it has been happening," added Simon Pulman, an attorney with Pryor Cashman. "What they are effectively saying is as a position, 'The second you create it, we have the right to use it, unless you affirmatively opt out.'""
OpenAI launched Sora 2 and proposed using copyrighted creations in its training data unless copyright holders actively opt out. The policy requires rights holders to notify OpenAI if they do not want their works included. Attorneys compared the approach to a burglar claiming entitlement unless explicitly told otherwise and warned that the policy implies OpenAI expects some right to use creators' work without obtaining licenses. Critics called the approach a form of "begging for forgiveness," and noted widespread examples of hyper-realistic AI-generated content that amplified concerns about enforcement of creators' rights.
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