#writers #IntellectualProperty #Facebook #AI #protests #activism
' Around 100 authors on Thursday protested outside the London headquarters of Meta, accusing the U.S. tech giant of "stealing" content to train its Artificial Intelligence models.'
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/04/04/entertainment-news/authors-protest-meta-ai/
AFP: Authors hold London protest against Meta for ‘stealing’ work to train AI. “Around 100 authors on Thursday protested outside the London headquarters of Meta, accusing the U.S. tech giant of ‘stealing’ content to train its Artificial Intelligence models.”
@eff
As always, Copyright is a global censorship regime. But using it to censor public knowledge of laws is really a next level move.
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
https://www.europesays.com/1957469/ Startup Founder Claims Elon Musk Is Stealing the Name ‘Grok’ #ArtificialIntelligence #Chatbots #ElonMusk #IntellectualProperty #Musk #startups
#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
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
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.”
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
Ars Technica: “Literally just a copy”—hit iOS game accused of unauthorized HTML5 code theft. “Here at Ars, we’ve written frequently about the video game industry’s ongoing problem with blatant game cloning and the shifting legal and ethical landscape around the issue. But we’ve rarely seen a case of alleged game theft as blatant as the one surrounding recent iOS App Store hit My Baby or […]
#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.
