An anonymous reader shares a report: The Content Overseas Distribution Association (CODA), an anti-piracy organization that represents Japanese intellectual property holders such as Studio Ghibli and Bandai Namco, published a letter last week asking OpenAI to stop using members’ content to train Sora 2according to Automaton. The letter states that “CODA considers that the act of replication during the machine learning process may constitute copyright infringement,” as the resulting AI model spit out content with copyrighted characters.
Sora 2 generated a flood of content containing Japanese IP after its release on September 30, prompting Japan’s government to formally ask OpenAI to stop replicating Japanese artwork. This is also not the first time that one of OpenAI’s applications has been clearly lifted from Japanese media: the highlight of GPT-4o’s launch in March was a proliferation of “Ghibli-style” images.
Altman announced last month that OpenAI will change Sora’s opt-out policy for intellectual property owners, but CODA claims that the use of an opt-out policy may have violated Japanese copyright law to begin with, stating that “under Japan’s copyright system, prior permission is generally required for the use of copyrighted works, and there is no system to avoid liability for infringement through subsequent objections.”
