The Copyright Claims Board has awarded photographer Martin McNeil nearly $3k in damages after his image was used on social media platforms.
https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/04/21/photographer-wins-nearly-3k-in-small-claims-case/
Apple dance creator sues Roblox, Meta says books have no economic value and Ed Sheeran writes a song about his copyright troubles.
https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/04/21/3-count-roblox-dance/
Weniger Klicks im Web? EU-Kommission untersucht Googles KI-Übersichten | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/Weniger-Klicks-im-Web-EU-Kommission-untersucht-Googles-KI-Uebersichten-10356981.html #Google 
#GoogleSuche #GoogleSearch #Urheberrecht #ArtificialIntelligence #copyright
Japan Considers Making AI-Generated Stuio Ghibli Images Illegal https://petapixel.com/2025/04/21/japan-considers-making-ai-generated-stuio-ghibli-images-illegal/ #studioghibli #aigenerated #Technology #copyright #aiimage #japan #News
Another day, another fraudulent DCMA pre-compliance copyright strike against one of my youtube videos using public domain music.
Sigh.
The Canada Future Party Platform Examined
We are continuing our series of examining different political parties. This time, we are looking at the Canada Future Party.
https://www.freezenet.ca/the-canada-future-party-platform-examined/
‘What’s the difference between me reading your work?” Sam #Altman (ChatGPT) asked.
‘It’s all free to read. What’s the difference? You’re outputting to potentially millions of people for commercial gain for no recompense, said [#Cadwalladr].
‘It’s fair use, he countered. It’s really not, I said. You’ve ingested the entire body of my work. It’s so easy to establish that.
And he was gone. Back to the controls of the tank that is soon to roll over all of us.’
Curiosamente, en el juicio en curso contra Meta por usar material protegido por derechos de autor para entrenar sus modelos de AI, están tratando de usar "el todo es más que la suma de las partes" como defensa.
Básicamente sostienen que cada obra individualmente no hace diferencia en el modelo resultante. Dicen que cada una modifica el modelo en menos de 0.0006% y que por tanto eso no hace diferencia y que carece de valor comercial.
Están argumentando la nave de Teseo. En una corte. Creo que lo están haciendo intencionalmente, pues la respuesta a ese problema depende de la postura filosófica que uno suscriba.
Ese argumento funciona en la dirección opuesta: si yo licencio todas las obras usadas, y llego a exactamente los mismos bytes a los que llegó Meta, lo que tendría en ese momento no viola el copyright de Meta pues es un objeto distinto aún cuando es digitalmente idéntico. Aún más, como yo le estaría dando participación (en alguna forma) a los autores, ellos no solo participarían de las ganancias que yo derive del modelo sino potencialmente de los productos que se obtengan al usar el modelo (todo dependería de los términos de la licencia que acuerde con los autores).
En ese sentido el argumento de Meta se puede invertir y usar para decir que los autores de las obras usadas tienen algún tipo de derecho sobre las cosas que se creen usando el modelo que ellos generaron.
Look like the RIAA is coming after Web Archive: https://blog.archive.org/2025/04/17/take-action-defend-the-internet-archive/
From: blenderdumbass . org
A large majority of people confuse privacy with data protection. And lately I'm noticing an uproar of ideologies that claim to be pro-freedom in one way or another, but which threaten freedom as a whole. I think there is a certain copyright mentality to them. Certain misunderstanding of ownership which makes fighting for freed...
Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/the_copyright_mentality
The Liberal Party Platform Examined
We continue our series of platform analysis through the lens of technology and digital rights by checking out the Liberal party platform.
https://www.freezenet.ca/the-liberal-party-platform-examined/
Break out the mega lawyers and be ready to seize $ billions in Meta assets. These fascist fucks think they can ignore EU law. School's open. 
New study: Graduate students in #STEM "often conflate issues around #copyright and #plagiarism and have little understanding of their own ownership over the materials they create."
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/955951
ASCAP, BMI, GMR, and SESAC have their say in US Copyright Office’s PRO inquiry… https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/ascap-bmi-gmr-sesac-have-their-say-in-us-copyright-offices-pro-inquiry/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_content=muz4now%2Fmagazine%2FCopyright%20and%20other%20IP&utm_medium=mastodon #Copyright
A lawsuit filed by the widow of Michael Crichton alleges that The Pitt is a rip-off of ER. But how true is that and why isn't this a copyright case?
https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/04/17/is-the-pitt-a-copyright-infringement-of-er/
Appeals court grants Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune injunction, Irish authors seek to battle Meta and the MPA and ACE target pirate sites.
https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/04/17/3-count-wheel-of-jeopardy/
Gonna be blunt here… the fact AI has given large companies an incentive to want copyright/trademark/IP law reformed should probably be seen as a positive.
All those complaints about Disney and the RIAA, and Nintendo trying to take down fan projects and people losing millions to unfair court cases and legal demands… and now we may see that change.
By sheer greed and technological ‘luck’, we may see these companies tear each other to shreds.
‘A self-described art thief’: how Wayne Thiebaud channeled other artists
The late painter was known for his masterly reinterpretations of famous works but also his own, wide-ranging originals https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/apr/16/wayne-thiebaud-san-francisco-exhibition #art #pastiche #copyright
#OpenDNS Quits Belgium Under Threat of Piracy Blocks or Fines of €100K Per Day - https://torrentfreak.com/opendns-quits-belgium-under-threat-of-piracy-blocks-or-fines-of-e100k-per-day-250416/ selfish #copyright companies are destroying the #Internet's infrastructure in their stupid, unwinnable war on sharing
