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The US Copyright Office says you can’t copyright Midjourney AI-generated images
The images in this comic book are “not of human authorship”
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This impressive tool removes watermarks in seconds
It's especially effective against Shutterstock watermarks.
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Digital Books wear out faster than Physical Books
Ever try to read a physical book passed down in your family from 100 years ago? Probably worked well. Ever try reading an ebook you paid for 10 years ago? Probably a different experience. From the leasing business model of mega publishers to physical device evolution to format obsolescence, digital books are fragile and […]
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Getty Images is suing an AI image generator for copyright infringement
Getty Images claims Stability AI copied millions of copyright-protected images to train its text-to-image generator, Stable Diffusion.
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Dr Dre successfully blocks Marjorie Taylor Greene from using his music
Dr Dre has successfully blocked Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene from using his music in any context to do with her political career after she used his 1999 hit Still Dre to soundtrack a promotional video. In the nearly two-minute video, posted on 9 January with the caption, “It’s time to begin … and they can’t stop what’s coming”, the far-right Georgia lawmaker walks out of her office in slow motion to the familiar first notes of the song, which features Snoop Dogg.
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Sherlock Holmes will finally escape copyright this weekend
Along with a wealth of silent films.
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The Copyright Industry Is About To Discover That There Are Hundreds Of Thousands Of Songs Generated By AI Already Available, Already Popular
You may have noticed the world getting excited about the capabilities of ChatGPT, a text-based AI chat bot. Similarly, some are getting quite worked up over generative AI systems that can turn text…
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Public Domain Day 2023
Works from 1927 are open to all! On January 1, 2023, copyrighted works from 1927 will enter the US public domain.
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Patients Are Being Left High And Dry When Medical Implant Makers Implode
Techirt has long discussed how in the modern era, the things you buy aren’t actually the things you buy. And the things you own aren’t actually the things you own. Things you&nb…
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Chokepoint Capitalism: why we'll all lose unless we stop Amazon, Spotify and other platforms squeezing cash from creators
Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow’s new book reveals the tricks behind ‘Chokepoint Capitalism’ – how big corporations use low prices to lock in users and creators, while locking out real competition.
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As Taylor Swift Rerecorded Her ‘Red’ Album, Universal Reworked Contracts
Taylor Swift’s rerecordings of her music catalog, including the “Red” album, are going viral on TikTok and outperforming the originals on streaming services—and her label, Universal Music Group, has tightened up terms with other artists.
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Rights holders got Google to remove 6 billion links from Search over 10 years
Experts say policymakers mostly ignore Google's transparency reports.
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Publishers Lose Their Shit After Authors Push Back On Their Attack On Libraries
On Friday, we wrote about hundreds of authors signing a letter calling out the big publishers’ attacks on libraries (in many, many different ways). The publishers pretend to represent the bes…
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Walled Culture – a compact, non-technical history of digital copyright and its problems over the last 30 years, and the social, economic and technolog
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Best Selling Organic Chemistry Textbook Goes Open Access After Professor Regains The Copyright
It’s well known that textbook prices are generally high. That’s in part because academic publishers effectively have a monopoly when it comes to standard texts. Very often, these are texts that stu…
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Chokepoint Capitalism: how Big Tech and Big Content captured creative labor markets and how we'll win them back
we're in a new era of "chokepoint capitalism," with exploitative businesses creating insurmountable barriers to competition that enable them to capture value that should rightfully go to others.
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Eve 6 Lead Singer: ‘Owning Media Is Now An Act Of Countercultural Defiance’
Max Collins, the lead singer of the band Eve 6 has penned a great piece for Popula, noting that owning media is now an act of countercultural defiance. Specifically, he’s speaking out against…
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Youtube ends Lofi Girl’s two-year-long stream over bogus DMCA warning – TechCrunch
Though the music stream will be back soon, Lofi Girl says false DMCA takedowns are "an underlying problem on the platform."
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Mickey Mouse could soon leave Disney as 95-year copyright expiry nears
The beloved character was created in 1928 and the cartoon is widely regarded as a pioneer in animation
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Bored Ape NFT maker Yuga Labs sues artist, claiming he copied tokens
The creator of the popular Bored Ape Yacht Club non-fungible tokens has sued an artist in Los Angeles federal court, accusing him of selling copycats that are confusing potential buyers.
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