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As always, Copyright is a global censorship regime. But using it to censor public knowledge of laws is really a next level move.
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Engadget: British authors want Meta to answer for alleged copyright infringement. “Creatives in the UK are once again speaking out against AI developers accessing copyrighted material. The Society of Authors have published an open letter calling for UK Secretary of State Lisa Nandy to hold Meta accountable for possible copyright infringement regarding its LLM, Llama 3. Signatories of the […]
Companies in MURICA love #copyright and lobby against Creative Commons and fair use, unless it´s convenient for them, like #openai and the #Ghibli syle. I thought #FairUse had to do with education and non-profit goals. 
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https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/is-ai-art-stealing-from-artists
The New Yorker · Is A.I. Art Stealing from Artists?
#Germany, supported by the #EU_Commission's #DG_SANTE & several other #EU member-states, threatens to block the crucial #PandemicAgreement. Why? For Germany & its cronies, it's #BigPharma #IntellectualProperty über alles, even if this threatens the health of billions of people, even if it means violating international trade treaties.
https://www.brusselstimes.com/1507860/will-europe-block-the-pandemic-agreement-because-of-one-word
www.brusselstimes.comPromoted | Will Europe block the Pandemic Agreement because of one word?
Is digital piracy ethically justifiable?
US judge dismisses Samsung's Oura lawsuit, ruling Samsung acted prematurely in seeking judgment that Galaxy Ring doesn't infringe Oura's patents. 
#Samsung #Oura #Lawsuit #Patents #TechNews #LegalNews #GalaxyRing #IntellectualProperty
ChatGPT’s viral Studio Ghibli-style images highlight AI copyright concerns https://www.inbella.com/972739/chatgpts-viral-studio-ghibli-style-images-highlight-ai-copyright-concerns/ #AnimationAndComics #ArtificialIntelligence #AssociatedPress #business #DominicanRepublic #DonaldTrump #Entertainment #EntertainmentNews #GeneralNews #GenerativeAi #HayaoMiyazaki #IntellectualProperty #JoshWeigensberg #KarlaOrtiz #mali #movies #SamAltman #technology #U.s.News #WorldNews #XCorp. #YusufDikec
Save these dates! 
The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) will host a free virtual webinar on Intellectual Property and AI on April 23-24, 2025.
For more details and to register:
https://mailchi.mp/wipo/wipo-conversation-11-ai-ip-the-future-of-copyright-infrastructure-join-us
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Reuters: Anthropic wins early round in music publishers’ AI copyright case. “Artificial intelligence company Anthropic convinced a California federal judge on Tuesday to reject a preliminary bid to block it from using lyrics owned by Universal Music Group (UMG.AS), opens new tab and other music publishers to train its AI-powered chatbot Claude.”
TorrentFreak: Meta’s BitTorrent Uploads of ‘Pirate Library’ Data Equaled 30% of Downloads, Expert Says. “A lawsuit filed by several authors against Meta centers on Meta’s alleged use of pirated books for AI training data and the technical details of BitTorrent which was used to obtain them. Yesterday, Meta filed a motion for summary judgment, while countering the authors’ request to […]
The UK's Intellectual Property Office (IPO) survey for designers is closing next week. The IPO is looking for designers to give their views about the future of design protection in the UK and the systems that will be used to implement it.
If you're a UK-based designer, studio, academic or legal professional involved in design, and haven't had your say yet, head over to https://ipoconsultations.citizenspace.com/ipo/design-review-survey/
The survey closes 1st April 2025.
Great to be part of the collection, celebrating the life and work of Intellectual Property Professor Antoon Quaedvlieg of Radboud University in the Netherlands. The book - Q - has just been launched https://www.ie-forum.nl/artikelen/presentatie-gedenkbundel-q-sfeerimpressie https://www.delex.nl/shop/boeken/q My contribution is on The Story of Shapeways: Reshaping Intellectual Property and 3D Printing in the Netherlands. #intellectualproperty #Netherlands #3dprinting
The Society of Authors: The LibGen data set – what authors can do. “The Atlantic published a searchable database of over 7.5 million books and 81 million research papers. This data set, called Library Genesis or ‘LibGen’ for short, is full of pirated material, and all of it has been used to develop AI systems by tech giant Meta.” FIVE of my books are in this data set. Do you think I […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/23/the-society-of-authors-the-libgen-data-set-what-authors-can-do/
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"We want to be clear: The MIT Press has not licensed any of our books or journal articles for LLM training purposes, nor have we granted permission for any such use. However, we are well aware that many MIT Press publications have ended up in pirated training data sets."
https://mitpress.mit.edu/a-note-on-libgen-and-the-unauthorized-use-of-our-authors-work/
MIT Press · A note on LibGen and the unauthorized use of our authors’ workAs a publisher committed to protecting authors' rights and intellectual property, the widespread unauthorized use of MIT Press works in training data sets is deeply troubling to us.
MIT Press: A note on LibGen and the unauthorized use of our authors’ work. “We want to be clear: The MIT Press has not licensed any of our books or journal articles for LLM training purposes, nor have we granted permission for any such use. However, we are well aware that many MIT Press publications have ended up in pirated training data sets. We share the deep distress of our authors whose […]
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Fast Company: Hollywood warns about AI industry’s push to change copyright law. “A who’s who of musicians, actors, directors, and more have teamed up to sound the alarm as AI leaders including OpenAI and Google argue that they shouldn’t have to pay copyright holders for AI training material. In an open letter, submitted to the White House Office of Science and Technology, more than 400 […]
Competitive and sustainable farming in Europe: give breeders a chance https://www.politico.eu/sponsored-content/competitive-and-sustainable-farming-in-europe-give-breeders-a-chance/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication #Newgenomictechniques(NGTs) #Intellectualproperty #Geneticmodification #AgricultureandFood #TradeAgreements #Transparency #Agriculture #Competition #Environment #Fertilizers #Innovation #Investment #Technology #Companies #Emissions #Platforms #Genetics
POLITICO · Competitive and sustainable farming in Europe: give breeders a chance
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The #law also refers to other elements that can’t be attributed to a #machine, Millet said, when it requires an #author’s “signature” to transfer, talks about co-authors’ “intention,” & refers to an author’s “nationality or domicile.”
“Machines do not have property, traditional human lifespans, family members, domiciles, nationalities, mentes reae, or signatures,” Millet said, later adding that “the #Copyright Act makes no sense if an ‘author’ is not a human being.”
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Millet wrote that the text of the #Copyright Act of 1976, “taken as a whole, is best read as making humanity a necessary condition for authorship.” That #law treats copyright as a heritable #property right, suggesting an entity that can’t own property or have heirs can’t be an #author. It also couches copyright terms to a #human lifespan, she noted.
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The panel declined to rule more broadly on whether or when creating an #AI or prompting it could give rise to #copyright protection, instead simply rejecting the concept of entirely autonomous authorship. It also said it didn’t need to reach the Copyright Office’s argument that the constitution itself requires #human authorship.