"There's obvious demand from AI companies to scrape YouTube content. We see that by their actions. So what we're trying to do is to create a tool that makes it legal and simple for them." - Dave Davis, CEO of Calliope Networks.
"Calliope Networks is a founding member of the Datasets Providers Alliance, a trade group that requires all creators and rights holders to opt into scraping." This reflects a shift in the industry towards legal frameworks for data licensing.
"Davis has a background in traditional media licensing; he left a gig at the Motion Picture Licensing Corporation to launch Calliope, betting that the AI industry would eventually move away from permissionless scraping and toward licensing as a norm." His experience lends credibility to Calliope's mission.
"Davis hopes YouTube creators will enter into a contract with Calliope, which will then sublicense their work out for training generative AI foundational models." This model aims to create a win-win for creators and AI developers.
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