Project Copy-Knight
| Name: | Project Copy-Knight |
| Date(s): | Nov 2023 - |
| Profit/Nonprofit: | Nonprofit |
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| Focus: | Detection of fic plagiarization on youtube via AI text to speech over videos |
| External Links: | https://echoekhi.com/2023/11/25/project-copy-knight/ |
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Origin of Project
EchoEkhi's inspiration came from a Reddit post[1] by EmmaIveli on her work Quirk: Magical Girl Mascot.
After building the proof of concept, he requested for help:
I am acutely aware that I cannot accomplish this on my own. There are many moving parts in this system that simply cannot be completely automated – like the selection of YouTube channels to feed into the toolchain, the manual verification step to prevent false-positives being sent to authors, the reaching-out to authors who have comments disabled, etc, etc.
So, if you are interested in helping to defend fanworks, or just want to have a chat or ask about the technical details of the toolchain, please consider joining my Discord server. I could really use your help.
History / Evolution of project
Example of the AO3 Bot message to notify creators: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2F0m7k3bve5fbc1.png%3Fwidth%3D1920%26format%3Dpng%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3Db76c5b437e21ae5666a130e1eefe4ef63c45fec5
Discussion
Maybe whichever publishers own the original works the fanfics are based on could be motivated to sue the pants off the people profiting from stealing fanfics? Just thinking.@tehemelie 30 Dec 2023 on Tumblr[2]
- @tehamelie That's actually not a great thing, because if they sue successfully they effectively claim ownership of both the video *and* the fic, putting the existence of the fics themselves in risk too.
It's also a step backwards in terms of the OTW's effort of establishing fanworks as legitimate transformative works with independent copyright instead of existing on an implicit "permissive license" at the original IP holder's discretion which could be revoked.@echoekhi on Tumblr[2]