***LIVE STREAMING UPDATE (BETTER LINK - As of Noon 7/12):***
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This week there will be another hearing in Washington, DC on the oversight of Artificial Intelligence. The hearing is scheduled for Tues (7/12) in the United States Senate, link to view the hearing information in the full text of this update below.
Thursday, July 12, - 3 pm (EST):
U.S. Senate: Judiciary Committee (Subcommittee Hearing)
{Artificial Intelligence & Intellectual Property: Part II - Copyright}
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/artificial-intelligence-and-intellectual-property_part-ii-copyright
Panelists include:
-Jeffrey Harleston
Executive VP of Business and Legal Affairs, Universal Music Group
-Karla Ortiz
Concept Artist, Illustrator, and Fine Artist
-Matthew Sag
Professor of Law, AI, ML, and Data Science Emory University School of Law
-Dara Rao
Executive VP, General Counsel, and Chief Trust Officer Adobe, Inc.
-Ben Brooks
Head of Public Policy, Stability AI
We absolutely MUST continue pushing for those in the White House and DC to speak to the HUMAN artists and creators whose intellectual property (IP) is propping up this entire new industry! This hearing is the FIRST TIME they will be including a SINGLE VISUAL ARTIST in this important process!!!
With respect to the decisions being made, and the fact that artists and creators are the true creative core at the heart of AI; it is positively inexcusable that so far only ONE VISUAL ARTIST has been included in these hearings. There should be several panels with artists and creators of all kinds. These people are being exploited daily by having their work products and creations served up as “data fuel“ which has been mined and scraped from the web, without their permission, and through predatory data gathering practices.
There have been lots of hearings with the CEOs and with fiscally vested computer experts though. Tomorrow’s hearing will be historic, in that it is the ONLY time so far that visual artists have even been invited to join the conversation. This is progress, but we need to continue pushing, and we need to continue to making our voices louder and louder on this!
Please, share the link to the hearing above as far and wide as you can, and please help us circulate the link to this petition as well, so we can continue to get the word out!
Lastly, can each of you who signed, get just 10 of your friends to sign it too?
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We want to be able to quickly send out updates to everyone who has signed, so we can let those who care about artists and creators know additional steps they can take and when and where to weigh in, when the moment needs us.
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Thank you again for your support!
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