[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/ <https://creativecommons.org/2019/03/13/statement-on-shared-images-in-facial-recognition-ai/> The FAQs are here: https://creativecommons.org/faq/#artificial-intelligence-and-cc-licenses <https://creativecommons.org/faq/#artificial-intelligence-and-cc-licenses> r. _____________________________ Ryan Merkley (he/him) Chief of Staff, Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> @ryanmerkley <https://twitter.com/ryanmerkley> +1 416 802 0662 > On Jan 18, 2020, at 2:14 PM, John Erling Blad <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/facial-recognition-s-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 > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
