🚩 Report: Copyright infringement
This is a collection of artworks and usernames from Cara, a website that explicitly does not support the use of its users' posted art for any purposes related to AI. I have personally reviewed this dataset and found my username, as well as many of my art pieces. I claim all copyright and trademark to my specific artworks and do not consent to them being part of this dataset. Regardless of anyone's personal beliefs or opinions on the matter, the retention of my artworks in this dataset is not morally, ethically, or legally justified. All efforts should be made to remove this dataset and permanently delete any remaining copies to comply with the wishes of myself, and the rest of the artists who host our IP on Cara, and to prevent any non-consentual use of copyrighted works.
Update: I have also filed a DMCA Notice of Copyright Infringement: Request for Removal of Infringing Material, to Hugging Face.
https://smallbusiness.chron.com/urls-copyrighted-62319.html
Copyright and URLs
URLs are not protected by copyright. This allows others to reference or link to a website address without needing to get permission from the site's creator. Legal disputes over domain names and URLs are not resolved under copyright law but instead by authorities such as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
That does NOT mean the image accessed through the URL is free to copy, reproduce, or use in this dataset. You are completely contradicting your statement as you are pretending the image doesn't exist and you only copied the url. The image AT the url is completely copyrightable, which is what you are using. As well as the link you copied is not even a valid source of information. I can tell you love your AI because you don't even know how to use proper sources.
That does NOT mean the image accessed through the URL is free to copy, reproduce, or use in this dataset. You are completely contradicting your statement as you are pretending the image doesn't exist and you only copied the url. The image AT the url is completely copyrightable, which is what you are using. As well as the link you copied is not even a valid source of information. I can tell you love your AI because you don't even know how to use proper sources.
https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ66.pdf
Copyrightable Content on a Website
To register a website or website content [with the US Copyright Office, for the purpose of filing infringement notices], you must identify the copyrightable authorship you will submit for registration. Copyrightable authorship is original expression contributed by an author that contains at least a minimum amount of creativity.
As with any other work, the Office will refuse registration for any website or website content that does not constitute copyrightable subject matter or any content that lacks sufficient authorship.
Common examples of uncopyrightable material particular to websites include [...] domain names or URLs
That does NOT mean the image accessed through the URL is free to copy, reproduce, or use in this dataset. You are completely contradicting your statement as you are pretending the image doesn't exist and you only copied the url. The image AT the url is completely copyrightable, which is what you are using. As well as the link you copied is not even a valid source of information. I can tell you love your AI because you don't even know how to use proper sources.
I didn't come here to debate the nuances of copyright law, but if people think that artists don't know a thing or two about intellectual property, then I don't know what to tell you. Needless to say, copyright law is complex, and sure, we Cara users will probably get the short end of the stick. I think you'll find that we also didn't come here to convince the AI bros to turn over a new leaf. Our only tools are to make a lot of noise and get the people with malicious intent to expose themselves, bringing more authoritative attention to it, and maybe forcing someone's hand at Hugging Face to do something to save their own face. But, hey, look, I can use Google to search up legal crap that fits my narrative too:
A couple copyright terms that might be helpful:
Active Inducement: Distributing a tool or list with the clear intent to foster or encourage copyright infringement.
Contributory Infringement: Knowledge of infringing activity and a material contribution to it.
Non-copyright legal stuff too:
Gloating, targeting, and harassing Cara users cross into clear civil and criminal violations.
Publishing specific lists of artists' usernames alongside explicit intent to target, mock, or direct harassment toward them can trigger state-level cyberharassment, cyberstalking, and doxxing statutes.
Just saying, it's not the Cara users taking risks; we're just using our voices. So, feel free to keep talking. It's not like you're going convince me or any other Cara user that you're on the right, moral, just side. But you might give us more ammunition to fight back.
Look, I get that you're mad. Unfortunately, sharing a list of links pointing to the original source of each work is perfectly legal. I'm currently halfway through downloading the images, and I must also thank Cara, the website these works are published at, for letting me do this (at blazing fast download speeds, I must say!). I and many others will be thrilled to start training more AI models off of this data.
Sure, you can't do anything about it right now, but you may be able to start a case against said models. However, it will at that point be too late.
Fair enough. I'm going to go back to making art now. Have a great time downloading and training models. I hope it fills whatever is missing in your life.
Fair enough. I'm going to go back to making art now. Have a great time downloading and training models. I hope it fills whatever is missing in your life.
Fair enough. I'm going to go back to making art now. Have a great time downloading and training models. I hope it fills whatever is missing in your life.
More money than these weeping artists will have