Guides, checklists, and legal resources to help you understand your rights and take action when your work has been stolen.
How artificial intelligence models are trained on creative work, and what that means for the people who made it. A primer for creators.
Read the guideStep-by-step instructions for filing a DMCA takedown notice when your creative work appears online without permission.
Read the guideHow to check whether your creative work has been included in AI training datasets without your consent or knowledge.
Read the guideWhat class actions are, how they work, and how individual creators can join lawsuits against companies that stole their work.
Read the guideA creator's checklist for documenting copyright infringement. What to save, how to timestamp, and what evidence matters.
Read the guideWhat creators need to know about copyright statute of limitations, filing deadlines, and preserving your right to sue.
Read the guideWhere data centers are, what they consume, how communities are responding, and what happens if AI architecture changes.
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Search our database of known AI training datasets. Find out whether your creative work — images, writing, music, or code — may have been used to train AI models without your permission.
We've catalogued the major publicly-known AI training datasets — LAION, Common Crawl, Books3, The Pile, GitHub code repositories, and more. Each entry includes what's in the dataset, known copyright concerns, relevant lawsuits, and tools for checking whether your work appears in it.
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