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/
@stiefkind nicht in #Deutschland!
Deshalb ist auch #SteamboatWillie nicht 'gemeinfrei' qua abgelaufenen Schutzrechten!
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
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.’
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/
PressGazette: ‘Unsustainable status quo’: AI companies and publishers respond to Govt copyright consultation. “The UK Government’s proposal to allow AI companies to automatically train their models on online content unless the rightsholder specifically opts out has been described as ‘unworkable’. A range of responses to the Government consultation on its proposed change to the existing […]
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
@gabrielesvelto since "#AI" is not a person, it cannot have #Authorship and thus not create #copyright|able works.
17 Apr 2025
Irish authors raise concerns over Meta's alleged AI use
A group of Irish authors has presented a petition to the Department of Trade raising their concerns over the alleged use by Meta of their publications to train its #AI model, Llama 3.
The petition has collected 1,500 signatures and was submitted to Minister of State with special responsibility for AI and digital transformation Niamh Smyth.
The authors have joined forces in a campaign organised by the Irish Writers Union - Aontas Scribhneoirí Éireann - to demand that Meta complys with Irish and European Union #copyright laws in the training of its AI model.
https://www.rte.ie/culture/2025/0417/1508104-authors-petition-meta-ai/
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.
@tml @11011110 Are you familiar with the Nefertiti bust case?
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/3-d-scans-bust-nefertiti-are-now-available-online-180973628/
It's not clear what the photographer/archaeologist is claiming here. The BBC mentions their photos were included (verbatim?) in the eBay description. If there was no attribution that's potentially a clear #copyright violation, but it could be solved by removing the photos and has nothing to do with the production or the sale of the replica.
‘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
