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. 
#IntellectualProperty
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/is-ai-art-stealing-from-artists
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
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/
#AI #Facebook #books #IntellectualProperty #MITPress
"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’ 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 […]
Well this is disturbing. Nine of my books are included in this list. FU Meta.
Check to see if yours were used - www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/
#books #ai #artificialintelligence #writingcommunity #authorlife #writinglife #theft #intellectualproperty
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.”
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.
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.
The opinion by Circuit Judge Patricia A. Millett lays down the first precedential marker regarding how #copyright #law treats works created by #AI. While it sided w/the US Copyright Office’s operating position by finding #human authorship is required for registration, it could create or reinforce perceptions in creative industries that AI’s contributions to a work represent unprotectable creative choices that can be freely copied.
#Human authorship is required for #copyright protection, a DC Circuit panel ruled in a landmark opinion that represents a setback for a push to award #IntellectualProperty protections to #AI creations.
Computer scientist Stephen Thaler argued a copyright should be registered to his AI program for 2D art titled “A Recent Entrance to Paradise.”But copyright protects human creation, & Thaler waived his alt argument that he created the work through creating the…program…
#law
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/human-authorship-required-to-register-copyright-d-c-cir-rules
The DC Circuit's decision in #ThalerVPerlmutter is out, ruling that #copyright #law requires that #authors be #human, not #AI, reasoning to this conclusion from the structure of the copyright statute (e.g., duration is based on the lifetime of the author)
https://media.cadc.uscourts.gov/opinions/docs/2025/03/23-5233.pdf
via NYU Law’s Jeanne Fromer
#chromecast pocalypse is yet another data showing that #intellectualproperty #plannedObsolence can generate unnecessary #ewaste
There's no good equivalent products today thanks to #enshitification.
Really wish good products would be valued but seems like the market just likes bloat and captive audiences. #google showing once more how far things have changed.
I hope countries around the world feel emboldened to repeal all the intellectual property laws that they adopted in return for favorable terms of trade with the US. None of it matters any more. It should be apparent now that US tariffs are getting applied RANDOMLY, to countries EVEN WHEN THEY COMPLY WITH ALL TRADE DEALS. I hope they do themselves a favor and free their societies from the shackles of US economic imperialism and innovate in a way that US companies cannot.
OpenAI Faces Legal Scrutiny over Copyright Claims, as Alec Radford gets Subpoenaed
#OpenAI #CopyrightLawsuit #AI #AlecRadford #ChatGPT #FairUse #IntellectualProperty #TechNews #AIRegulation
https://www.techi.com/ex-openai-researcher-alec-radford-subpoenaed-copyright-case/
