Brandon Butler

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Copyright lawyer at Jaszi Butler PLLC, Exec Director @recreatecoalition.bsky.social, dad. Press inquiries: press@recreatecoalition.com.

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Text outlines copyright as a legal monopoly, a privilege encouraging creativity, rather than a natural right for authors and inventors.
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Cerebras announces the release of SlimPajama, a deduplicated, open-source dataset for training large language models, optimizing data quality.
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Werner Herzog discusses the unexpected resurgence of a penguin scene from his film, mentioning its adoption by various entities and free speech.
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“Wikipedia is a critical component of these tech companies’ work that they need to figure out how to support financially,” Lane Becker, president of Wikimedia Enterprise, told Reuters. “It took us a little while to understand the right set of features and functionality to offer if we’re going to move these companies from our free platform to a commercial platform… but all our Big Tech partners really see the need for them to commit to sustaining Wikipedia’s work.”
Close-up screenshot of text defining "derivative work," listing examples like translation, dramatization, sound recording, abridgment and editorial revisions.
It can distin-guish between expressive and functional features of com-puter code where those features are mixed. It can focus on the legitimate need to provide incentives to produce copy-righted material while examining the extent to which yet further protection creates unrelated or illegitimate harms in other markets or to the development of other products. In a word, it can carry out its basic purpose of providing a context-based check that can help to keep a copyright mo-nopoly within its lawful bounds.
Brandon Butler O @bc_butler X.com I'm an advisor to the @AmLawInst Restatement of Copyright, and I have nothing but admiration for the authors' extraordinary patience, humility, and erudition in the face of a ceaseless onslaught of sniping and mean-spirited, unfair attacks from critics, including some advisors. 12:40 PM • 5/16/25 • 443 Views • | 1 17 2 1 Brandon Butler • @bc butler • 5/16/25 It was generous as well as politically astute and substantively wise to attempt to bring some of these voices into the tent to help shape the Restatement. In some cases they raised points that were genuinely helpful, and their input was gratefully received and adopted. 0 1 Brandon Butler • @bc_butler • 5/16/25 Had they continued to participate in good faith, I'm sure they would have made the document better. In that sense, it's regrettable that these folks have decided to abandon the project. HOWEVER. It is simply false to suggest • 1 ill 68 贝 L
Brandon Butler • @bc_butler • 6/8/21| You can't help but admire the chutzpah involved in this epic gaslighting effort, but it's still gaslighting. Literally every critic who has leveled ad hominem charges at the Restatement authors is or has been a paid advocate for the copyright industries. • 1 • 6 O ... Brandon Butler • @bc_butler • 6/8/21| O ... Dark insinuations about serving Google and undercutting copyright for Big Tech look like so much projection coming from a cast of characters who have contributed to a half-century of tilting copyright law ever more in favor of their preferred industries. 0 1 • 6 ili Brandon Butler * @bc butler• 6/8/21| G... Anyway, for a longer, deeper, more scholarly defense of the Restatement project, see @JSilbey and @JeanneFromer journals.library.columbia.edu/ index.php/lawa.... I just needed to vent a bit about the storm of foot-stomping and grousing we've seen this week. 0 1 O 14 ihll 贝 Brandon Butler • @bc butler • 6/8/21 O... Happily, it seems that the good folks at ALl are not much moved by all the stürm und drang from industry blogstadvertorials or even the repeated earnest concern-trolling of a few academics. Hopefully the project can move forward, now, with (fun!) discussions of substance. • 1 17 M 5 个
Text of tweets: I wanted to say a few words about the @AmLawInst Restatement of Copyright, just ahead of the vote on it this afternoon. It's probably too late —unlike the well-funded and well-organized opponents, who have placed editorials in DC outlets and seeded stories with industry press, 5:48 PM • 6/8/21| supporters of the Restatement (whoever we are) have said little in public. I'm not aware of any organized effort by those of us on the public interest side of © policy wars to defend the Restatement; I guess our cabal is so secretive, even we don't know about it. Anyway, as an advisor (one of many, many folks, from many perspectives) to the project, it has been my impression so far that the actual technical disagreements re drafting that have unfolded are minor and amicably resolved. IOW, no one has yet raised a
Screenshot shows the first page of the ARL Code addendum, which includes confirmation of fair use's application to accessibility under HathiTrust, Section 121's applicability to research libraries, and updates to Section 121 from the Marrakesh Treaty Implementation Act.
The critical point: Al models do not store or distribute the copyrighted works they are trained on in the way pirates do. Instead, the training process works more like this: • The system ingests the training data and converts it into mathematical representations (vectors, weights, and parameters). • The original works are not preserved in the final model. Instead, the system captures statistical information about how words follow one another, how images are composed, or how sounds combine into melodies. • Once training is complete, the model generates new outputs based on probabilities, not by reproducing specific works or parts of them. This training process almost always requires making temporary copies of copyrighted works during the process. But the end product is not a copy of those works; it is a statistical model capable of generating new, original content.
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