ICYMI, this is a great discussion of the value of openness in the age of AI: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcasā¦
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A lot of people should read this aeon.co/essays/your-brain-doā¦
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Second, Ross shouldāve won. The raw material they copied in the process of training their AI tool wasnāt really expressive content at all.
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Read the latest #IPilogue post by IP Osgoode Senior Research Fellow, Xiang Zhang:
"If purchasing a digital book leaves us with fewer practical freedoms than buying its printed equivalent, then the balance at the heart of copyright has quietly shifted."
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Guess itās time to resurrect my essay from 2023 undark.org/2023/06/22/ai-cre⦠@GaryMarcus
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A team of academics has attracted news coverage with claims that AI regurgitates and competes unfairly with works in its training data, theses with a conveniently tight relationship to copyright plaintiffs' legal arguments. Now a leading AI scholar says one of their papers is misleading.
I was pleased to chat with Abby Hughes for her terrific CBC piece on the Canadian BRUHā¢ļø controversy. š
Etsy seller's 'bruh' T-shirts were removed over a trademark complaint. He says it's trademark squatting | CBC News cbc.ca/news/business/bruh-etā¦
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Locking training data behind a compulsory licensing regime isn't the way to empower artists with the latest generative AI tools to supercharge their own creativity. It *is* a way to boost the revenues of GEMA's giant US and other Ā© aggregator affiliates:
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Big news today:
GERMAN COURT RULES AI MUSIC FIRM SUNO BROKE COPYRIGHT RULES
Suno "has to provide information on illicit revenue", and "will have to pay damages".
Wow.
reuters.com/world/german-couā¦
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Just dropping this here again for no reason whatsoever. technollama.co.uk/open-sourcā¦
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Steven Hinkley on AI Hallucinations in Canadian Legal Submissions: legaltheoryblog.com/?p=11256ā¦
āThe greatest threat to freedomā¦may be the quiet, almost imperceptible moments in which people decide not to speak, not to search, not to participate, and not to questionā¦ā
Check out the latest #IPilogue post on @jon_penneyās book, āChilling Effectsā: yorku.ca/osgoode/iposgoode/2ā¦
This paper compares joint-authorship rules across four countries & argues that #copyright doctrine mishandles collaboration by treating joint #authorship as a contest between a ārealā author & an āOther.ā
Read: spkl.io/601276gCG
Subscribe: spkl.io/601876gCM
Great post, well worth a read! šš¼ ā[I]f you are left-leaning, or a Libertarian, or you are sceptical of big tech, the only way through is with openness. The only way we will become less dependent on big tech is through the deployment and development of viable open alternatives.ā
New blog post: Open source and commons ideals are more important than ever technollama.co.uk/open-sourcā¦
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My oped on @IPOsgoode:
Why AI Red Teams Need More Lawyers
After participating in red teams, it became clear to me that safety testing of AI systems CANNOT remain the domain of engineers. Here are 5 things lawyers bring to the "AI breaking" table
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Huge and very good news for doc filmmakers on fair use today! The 10th Circuit has reversed itself in the Whyte Monkee case, ruling that fair use DOES protect the inclusion of 3rd-party footage in the breakout hit *Tiger King*. Big š§µ, unpacking it all:
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Read the latest #IPilogue post by @IPOsgoode's Dominic Rochon & Xiang Zhang reflecting on insights shared at the book launch for "IP Futures: Exploring the Global Landscape of IP Law & Policy" by Reynolds, Mogyoros & Dagne eds + @NaamaDaniel1 @creianderson yorku.ca/osgoode/iposgoode/2ā¦
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Dr. @CraigCarys warns AI could be 'brought to its knees' by copyright laws at the Industry committee.
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Library and Archives 101: AI and the False Promise of Control ā Authors Alliance ift.tt/c2Z1Uy9
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Check out our latest #IPilogue post by Shadi Nasseri, @IPOsgoode Senior Research Fellow, reflecting on the recent @NathansonCentre panel: "Corporate Responsibility for AI Harm" ā¤ļøāš©¹š©ŗ AI is revealing the law's vulnerabilities @OsgoodeNews @ConnectedMinds3 š
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